On 27/09/2008, Björn Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don Russell wrote:
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Should I just change the x in passwd to * and call it a day?
And if that's the case, surely the update process could have done that...
but, it's not a big deal.
I suppose this change was made because disabling login
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Bill Crawford
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On Thursday 25 September 2008 12:41:13 Brian Millett wrote:
So the password field has changed from x to *
I know that that means look in /etc/shadow for the password, but what
inconsistancy will the older,
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Don Russell
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Bill Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thursday 25 September 2008 12:41:13 Brian Millett wrote:
So the password field has changed from x to *
I know that that means look in
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Kam Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Don Russell
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Bill Crawford
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On Thursday 25 September 2008 12:41:13 Brian Millett wrote:
So the
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Don Russell
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Kam Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Don Russell
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Bill Crawford
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Kam Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Don Russell
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Kam Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Don Russell
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Don Russell wrote:
As I asked before, am I supposed to drop those ones that were system
generated, and just now keep the ones in passwd.rpmnew + the specific users
*I* created?
No. The other system accounts, like rpm, dbus, pulse, sshd and so on, were
most likely created by the corresponing
Ok, so in this very large update, I see that
Updating : setup [ 39/144]
warning: /etc/passwd created as /etc/passwd.rpmnew
Doing a diff I see
that these have changed
-root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
-bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin
On Thursday 25 September 2008 12:41:13 Brian Millett wrote:
So the password field has changed from x to *
I know that that means look in /etc/shadow for the password, but what
inconsistancy will the older, established users find ??
'x' means look in /etc/shadow, '*' is one of several
