From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 13:23:36 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 13:23:32 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h000.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6994C37B402 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:23:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 5006 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2000 11:53:08 -0800 Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (HELO zoso) (216.227.91.85) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.206) with SMTP; 18 Dec 2000 11:53:08 -0800 X-Sent: 18 Dec 2000 19:53:08 GMT From: "Otter" To: , Subject: RE: blank passwords in master.passwd? Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:58:21 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerald, If it was blank, it would be A Bad Thing (TM). In this case, the * signifies that the user cannot login from a terminal (local or remote). These are just names that certain daemons/apps run under. Every process has to have an owner. Look at the output of ps aux or top sometime. -Otter }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gerald T. }Freymann }Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 2:20 PM }To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: blank passwords in master.passwd? } } } } Are there supposed to be blank passwords in /etc/master.passwd?? } } Such as.. } }toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: }daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/sbin/nologin }operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/sbin/nologin }bin:*:3:7::0:0:Binaries Commands and Source,,,:/:/sbin/nologin }tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin }kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin }games:*:7:13::0:0:Games pseudo-user:/usr/games:/sbin/nologin }news:*:8:8::0:0:News Subsystem:/:/sbin/nologin }man:*:9:9::0:0:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/sbin/nologin }bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin }uucp:*:66:66::0:0:UUCP }pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/libexec/uucp/uucico }xten:*:67:67::0:0:X-10 daemon:/usr/local/xten:/sbin/nologin }pop:*:68:6::0:0:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin }nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged }user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin } }Aren't those "*"'s in the password field bad? } }-Gerry } } } }To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org }with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message