Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 11/25/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
You can have a UID without a corresponding user's home directory. Look at
nobody:nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
I have no idea how to "look at" that. I've seen "nobody" somewhere.
And I know where to find "/" and "/sbin/nologin". But as to what the
rest of that means, I haven't a clue. I also don't know if the ":"
links each item in some way or another. Eight items.
Clue: that is a line quoted from /etc/passwd.
I thought that line resembled something I'd seen before. It has been
some time since I looked in there. I had forgotten what it looked like
in there.
Maybe it is too much of an in thing to expect people to recognize an
/etc/passwd line.
But it wasn't on the newbie list.
Heh. Yeah, I probably still belong on the newbie list. There are vast
amounts yet unknown to me. But I can get around and do most of the
basic things I need to do. And I know enough to be able to understand
half of the technical discussion. I often save emails which contain
tidbits and chunks of info that I think I would like to try in the near
future. Some of it I try right away. So far, I haven't mucked up my
system from trying things new to me. I even remember maybe half of what
I try.
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