Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:21:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Marco A. Barbosa S." <mbarbosa@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx> To: root@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net (Brendan Kosowski - System Administrator) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Problems Message-ID: <199804240021.RAA18517@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980424011745.991A-100000@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net> from Brendan Kosowski - System Administrator at "Apr 24, 98 01:35:01 am"
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> > I am currently trying out FreeBSD 2.2.5 and I am having 2 problems : > > > 1. If I change the root login shell in /etc/passwd to /bin/sh instead of > /bin/csh , it still comes up as "csh" when I login as root. hmmm how are you changing it ? I changed and it puts me the sh very nicely... of course... it still gives me the same # thing for the csh and the #, remember you are root... you are supposed to get the #, otherwise... you can forget about it and do nasty stuff... *grin* > > 2. The /etc/passwd file has * for all passwords. This is confusing because > older unix systems used * to DISABLE a user login. If * is NOT disable, > then how do I disable a user login ? maybe you have heard about shadowing passwds? to prevent users from reading the encrypted passwds and running crack on them? the real passwd strings are in /etc/master.passwd which only the root can read... maybe you can look at it? > Would appreciate any help on the above problems. > > Thanks & Regards, Brendan Kosowski. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > dont worry... I dont know everything either... *chuckle* -- ************************************* * Marco Antonio Barbosa Santoyo * * Facultad de Ciencias, U.A.B.C. * * Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico * ************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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