Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me
thank u all, (this comes a little late, sorry i had no internet con.) i seem to have totally forgotten about the passwd-db. YES i have edited them all with vi i removed my entrys and did them again with vipw. now all works very fine :) thx morla
Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me
Hi, #pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd to generate the new password database and try again. morla wrote: hello all, i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. when i enter something like morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin into /etc/passwd and a similary entry into /etc/master.passwd should'nt this keep me out??? please be carefull with me, i am realtily new to bsd... thanks all morla
Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:53:52AM +0200, morla wrote: hello all, i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. when i enter something like morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin into /etc/passwd and a similary entry into /etc/master.passwd should'nt this keep me out??? did you use vipw(8) ? this automatically updates the user database. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me
On 2005-10-21T07:53, morla wrote: hello all, i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. when i enter something like morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin into /etc/passwd and a similary entry into /etc/master.passwd should'nt this keep me out??? please be carefull with me, i am realtily new to bsd... have you used vipw? Thats all you need to change settings in, and only in, the /etc/master.passwd! Otherwise you have to rebuild the passwd db by hand. Read VIPW(8) for more information. hth, Marcus.
Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, morla wrote: hello all, i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. when i enter something like morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin into /etc/passwd and a similary entry into /etc/master.passwd should'nt this keep me out??? please be carefull with me, i am realtily new to bsd... NEVER edit passwd or master.passwd directly. Use vipw or the various user management programs. The password entries are stored into a db that needs to be regenerated. The programs take care of that. -Otto
Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me
hmm, on Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:53:52AM +0200, morla said that i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. i am not 100% sure what retrival means, but if you want to keep the account only for receiving email, you might consider creating an email alias (/etc/aliases) instead... -f -- real programmers use copy com1 program.zip and whistle.
Re: passwd: /sbin/nologin --- not working for me
You said you entered into those files. Did you vi(1) them mnaually? Did you rebuild the database afterward? When you finger the user, what does the shell show up as? Use either vipw(8) as root, to do this, or use chfn(1) as the user. ~BAS On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, morla wrote: hello all, i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. when i enter something like morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin into /etc/passwd and a similary entry into /etc/master.passwd should'nt this keep me out??? please be carefull with me, i am realtily new to bsd... thanks all morla l8* -lava x.25 - minix - bitnet - plan9 - 110 bps - ASR 33 - base8
