On Wednesday 07 March 2007 01:26, Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> In fact GROUP won't be used at all, ever, in any configuration; the only
> way with vanilla shadow-4.0.18.1 to get all your users in the same GID
> is to provide that GID to the -g option.
Thanks for the detailed analysis, Bryan. Aside fro
Matthew Burgess wrote:
> I observe the same behaviour with `useradd' from shadow-4.0.18.1 with
> that patch applied. The patch fixes an error whereby the '-g' option
> of useradd(8) and usermod(8) don't accept strings as their arguments.
> I can't see how it would affect this behaviour we're obser
On Monday 05 March 2007 23:38, Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> Matthew Burgess wrote:
>
> Do you know how useradd works if GROUP is commented out in the config
> file? I'd assume it either gives you an error or creates a group with
> the same name as the user, but I don't know for sure.
See src/useradd.c:
Hi.
> 3) pld.org.pl is now returning an 'unknown host' error. Hunting around,
> I've found ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/software/shadow but that only has
> shadow-4.0.3!
http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/host-security/shadow/old/
has the file...
> (for those of you not watching
> at home
Matthew Burgess wrote:
> # Please be aware that Debian's adduser defaults to "user groups"
> # which means that one group is created for each user
> # There is no way to achieve this with useradd which must remains a low
> # level utility
> # GROUP=100
>
> If I get some time I'll figure out just h
Matthew Burgess wrote:
> So, I'm thinking now of adding two new groups to LFS - mail=34 and users=100.
>
> Then, we'll use the `useradd -D' and `sed' commands above to change shadow's
> defaults.
Sounds sane to me. As a bonus, the users=100 setting goes logically
with nobody=99.
-- Bruce
On Monday 05 March 2007 01:43, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Matthew Burgess wrote:
> > Now, we can
> > either install a 'users' group as GID 1000, or we can change the default
> > in /etc/default/useradd to one of the GIDs in /etc/passwd. Personally,
> > I'd prefer the former, as I can't see a suitable de
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> My *real* preference would be for the system to automatically make a
> new group with the same name as the user if -g is not specified and
> use that. I think that's how RedHat does it.
Same here: don't have one huge group for all users; give each user their
own group.
I *th
Matthew Burgess wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> So, we've got a couple of issues with Shadow at the moment.
>
> 1) Consider the following command:
>
> root:/# useradd testuser
> useradd: unknown GID 1000
> Group 'mail' not found. Creating the user mailbox file with 0600 mode.
>
> The first message is be
Hi folks.
So, we've got a couple of issues with Shadow at the moment.
1) Consider the following command:
root:/# useradd testuser
useradd: unknown GID 1000
Group 'mail' not found. Creating the user mailbox file with 0600 mode.
The first message is because our /etc/default/useradd configuration
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