On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:30:11 +0200
Bertram Scharpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm fetching the users from the files '/etc/passwd' and
> '/etc/shadow'. (I use a simple Ruby script.)
>
> def users fn ; File.open fn do |f| f.map { |l| l[ /^[^:]*/] } end ;
> end
>
> pw = users "/etc/passwd"
> sh = users "/etc/shadow"
>
> Now I detect there are users in passwd that don't have a
> shadow entry...
that makes sense, because some users aren't allowed to log in. For
example:
| man:x:13:15:man:/usr/share/man:/bin/false
the man user can't log in. the shell is /bin/false.
> and even shadowed users that don't appear in
> passwd:
>
> > pw - sh
> => ["man", "smmsp", "portage", "cvs"]
> > sh - pw
> => ["games", "guest", "cvsd"]
now that I can't explain. But I have games and guest myself, although
I don't use CVS. So my guess is it's not a bug and you've not been
hacked.
> Does this have any meaning or is it a bug?
>
> Bertram
>
>
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