From: Pierre A. Humblet
Domain users have had recurrent troubles with /etc/passwd.
Here is why, and a proposed remedy.
TODAY
The currently released setup.exe verifies if /etc/passwd exists.
If it doesn't, setup creates the file /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.bat
which contains
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:02:39 - John Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems desirable to
- have local users and groups always appear in /etc/passwd and /etc/group
Why? I never log on locally when running on a network domain...
Don't a lot of the system files belong to the local
At 01:02 PM 12/8/2002 -, John Morrison wrote:
Glad you commented at the time this was up for debate...
Sorry, I totally missed that discussion.
Better late than never?
Adding the domain users at work is a mear second or so. Those networks
where it is bigger than that, I'm afraid I can't
From: Michael A Chase
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems desirable to
- have local users and groups always appear in /etc/passwd
and /etc/group
Why? I never log on locally when running on a network domain...
Don't a lot of the system files belong to the local account used for
From: Pierre A. Humblet
At 01:02 PM 12/8/2002 -, John Morrison wrote:
Glad you commented at the time this was up for debate...
Sorry, I totally missed that discussion.
Better late than never?
Ok...
Adding the domain users at work is a mear second or so. Those networks
where it is
From: Earnie Boyd
Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
Question:
have you a known situation where $USERDOMAIN != hostname and
you weren't logged into a domain?
No. But I have only checked on one machine.
By the way that test is not needed in the script with -c, because it
is then done in
From: John Morrison
From: Michael A Chase
Don't a lot of the system files belong to the local account used for
installation? SYSTEM is also a local user though that is a
special case.
$ mkpasswd.exe -d
SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
mkpasswd: [2453]
At 05:03 PM 12/8/2002 -, you wrote:
Also you probably are in the local Users group, but you
don't see it.
Possibly, how can I tell?
Type id while Users is in your /etc/groups.
It is put there by mkgroup -l
So, what to do...
1) go back to only adding local users
2) keep things the way
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 17:16:55 - John Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: John Morrison
From: Michael A Chase
Don't a lot of the system files belong to the local account used for
installation? SYSTEM is also a local user though that is a special case.
$ mkpasswd.exe -d
