Re : Re: Re : RE: please help me: problems for users!
Hi,
The files /etc/group and etc/passwd are OK. I use the shadow mode (password
field = x in the file /etc/passwd).
As I wrote it in my first mail when an user (except root) runs the editor
"vi" one can read the message
"Information on user id 1000 not found.
Modifications not recoverable if the session fails"
In fact when the session fails a mail is sent to the user. In this mail one
can read something like that
"vi -r nameofthefile to recorver the file...". So I do not think that my
problem is a password one but
a mail configuration one, but I am not am expert. (It is perharps for the
same reason that xlock crashes for a non-root user!)
Any help would be great!
Patrick Richard, France
/etc/group
root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
adm:x:4:
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:
lp:x:7:lp
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:
proxy:x:13:
kmem:x:15:
dialout:x:20:
fax:x:21:
voice:x:22:
cdrom:x:24:
floppy:x:25:
tape:x:26:
sudo:x:27:
audio:x:29:
dip:x:30:
majordom:x:31:majordom
postgres:x:32:
www-data:x:33:
backup:x:34:
msql:x:36:
operator:x:37:
list:x:38:
irc:x:39:
src:x:40:
gnats:x:41:
shadow:x:42:
staff:x:50:
games:x:60:
qmail:x:70:
users:x:100:
nogroup:x:65534:
patrick:x:1000:
netplan:x:63434:
croque:x:1001:
utilisateurs:x:101:
croque2:x:1002:
and a line of /etc/passwd
patrick:x:1000:101:Patrick RICHARD,,,:/home/patrick:/bin/csh
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>M.C. Vernon wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote:
>>
>> > M.C. Vernon wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Patrick RICHARD wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > I choose the shadow mode and I create the new users with the
command
>> > > > "adduser"
>> > >
>> > > Can you post /etc/passwd and /etc/group, please?
>> >
>> > Please post your private PGP key and pass phrase also. ;)
>>
>> Red herring. If he uses shadow passwords, then the password field mearly
>> contains an x. If he doesn't, then it is only a one-way hash. Having said
>> that, he claims to use shadow, so this shouldn't matter.
>
>This is true. It escaped me that he was using shadow mode. Let's hope
>he is right about that. The one-way hashes would be easily brute-forced
>with a local copy of them.
>
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