Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:10:27 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@black-earth.co.uk> To: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Lin <taosheng.lin@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root" Message-ID: <4B76EB13.3060900@black-earth.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <54db43991002130949l1cdddf5ey5565547637c531@mail.gmail.com> References: <387428344-1265866387-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-794243854-@bda049.bisx.prodap.on.blackberry> <c81e6afd1002102307l2b089a76p36a8d67d3085a1e5@mail.gmail.com> <hl34b5$usg$1@ger.gmane.org> <54db43991002130949l1cdddf5ey5565547637c531@mail.gmail.com>
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On 13/02/2010 17:49, Bob Johnson wrote:
> It is possible (I don't remember) that the "toor" account does not
> have a shell in the default passwd file. If that's the problem, use
> vipw to add the path to a shell as the last field on the line. The
> "root" account should provide a good example, or look at the line for
> your own user account. "/bin/csh" should work for recent versions of
> FreeBSD.
An empty field for the user shell in /etc/{master.,}passwd means the
account gets the default shell, which in the case of FreeBSD is /bin/sh.
Shouldn't cause the observed problem.
Cheers,
Matthew
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