Hi, I have been learning on my own about file permissions in Fedora 8 recently and I have a few questions about what I saw on my computer. I was looking at my user account in User Manager under properties. I noticed that my password was five characters but not six that I use currently. My UID is 500 and login shell is /bin/bash. Another user account called nobody with UID 65534 is present with a home directory /var/lib/nfs with password of five characters and this user has it's local password is locked. Another nobody account at user ID 99 with login shell /sbin/nologin with home directory as /.
I checked further into this and realized this has been like this for several years. I may have experimented with a user accounts in the past but I can not remember this. Any suggestions or explanation how I use six character password but only five is recorded in the User manager preferences. What's the difference between /bin/bash and /sbin/nologin? Thanks, Darcy _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
