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  From: Andrew Halliday <andrew@recalldesign.com>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:57:18 +1030

Appletalk Question (Update)

Okay, after much fiddling I worked it out ... I have been caught by the
nicities of pre-packaged shrink-wrapped yuppiedom yet again.  The binaries
needed shadowed passwords capabilities added, so I had to d/l source and
compile.

Also had to create the nobody user differently than had been done previously
(
groupadd -g 65534 nogroup
useradd -u 65534 -g nogroup -d /home nobody
*changed the shell from /bin/bash to /bin/sh
This produced the following entries in passwd and shadow respectfully:
nobody:x:65534:65534::/home:/bin/sh
nobody:!:11324:0:99999:7:::

*tried setting shell to /bin/false (like telnetd) yielding
nobody:x:65534:65534::/home:/bin/false
)

AndrewH

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