From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 23 17:19:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23581 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:19:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fciencias.ens.uabc.mx ([148.231.177.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23570 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbarbosa@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx) Received: (from mbarbosa@localhost) by fciencias.ens.uabc.mx (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA18517; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:21:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbarbosa) From: "Marco A. Barbosa S." Message-Id: <199804240021.RAA18517@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Problems In-Reply-To: from Brendan Kosowski - System Administrator at "Apr 24, 98 01:35:01 am" To: root@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net (Brendan Kosowski - System Administrator) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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