Hi, Am Sonntag, 30. Sep 2007, 20:15:06 -0500 schrieb Dan Farrell: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:30:11 +0200 > Bertram Scharpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
I detected it because there is a warning message in case there is _no_ shadow entry. Instantiating an _empty_ shadow entry makes it disappear: myhost ~ # su - man su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. (Ignored) myhost ~ # su - portage su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. (Ignored) myhost ~ # vi /etc/shadow myhost ~ # grep portage /etc/shadow portage:!:13784:0:99999:7::: myhost ~ # su - portage myhost ~ # echo $? 1 myhost ~ # Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
