I just added the correct entry for nobody, and it works fine now. I believe it is a bug, seeing as it was from a fresh install from the debian 1.1 beta. Maybe I should have said yes to the question of updating the /etc/passwd. I figured the initial installation would produce an adequate one not to be overwritten by a package.
Jason Eggleston http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jegglest/ On Fri, 3 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jason Eggleston wrote: > > > For those following this thread, someone else has been helping me off the > > list and figured out I didn't have a 'nobody' in my /etc/passwd file. > > The problem was that nobody had a shell of /dev/null (check this in > your /etc/passwd to see if that's your problem). You can upgrade to a > newer base and recreate your system's users or use vipw to cut and > paste the /etc/passwd's. > > At the moment there is no way for base to upgrade the system user part > of /etc/passwd only. > > > Guy > >
