Sebastian Haase said: > Hi all! I would like to repost my email from Aug 20th of this year, > because I still don't know would the solution is. > Is it maybe a bug of tiger (that it doesn't know about NIS) > (That's why I'm also cc-ing to the package-maintainer - hope that's OK) > Thanks, Sebastian > > Please read this: >> Hi ! >> I installed tiger to have some checks on my security sone: >> But everyday I get messages like these: >> # Performing check of user accounts... >> # Checking accounts from /etc/passwd. >> --WARN-- [acc011w] Login ID +alexis does not have a password. >> >> That is: I use NIS and have specific users maked with a '+' - sign in >> /etc/passwd >> like this: >> +alexis::0:0::: >> >> Isn't this a correct way of 'nis-sifying' certain users !?
yes that is correct, the system is probably complaining because it can't find a password in /etc/shadow. Which is to be expected if your using NIS, or some other authentication(PAM with mysql, ldap, etc) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
