On Thursday 01 October 2009, Charles Curley wrote: >On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:51:56 -0400 > >Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Charles Curley wrote: >> >On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:58:48 -0400 >> > >> >Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> See? Its sort of a now it can be told thing. But that brings up >> >> the question of who owns /home/amanda on such a (broken IMO) >> >> installation? >> > >> >Actually, nobody owns it; it doesn't exist on a standard Ubuntu >> >installation. From my unchanged Ubuntu client installation: >> > >> >r...@dzur:/var# grep backup /etc/passwd >> >backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh >> >r...@dzur:/var# >> >> Oookaaay, what do you get from a "grep amanda /etc/passwd"? > >About the value of a political promise on election night. > >ccur...@dragon:~$ egrep amanda\|backup /etc/passwd >backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh >ccur...@dragon:~$ grep amanda /etc/passwd >ccur...@dragon:~$ > So you don't even have a user amanda, nor a /home/amanda directory...
Interesting. Bears further investigation I believe. When I'm fresher. Thanks Charles. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Laundry is the fifth dimension!! ... um ... um ... th' washing machine is a black hole and the pink socks are bus drivers who just fell in!!
