With regards to adding user accounts, I thought I'd mention this... Oxygen has had a "lrp" user from early on. More notes to follow...
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > As always, this is truly superb stuff! Bravo, Charles !!! > > > > Couple questions, even though these items appeared in RC5: > > > > [1] What is the purpose of the ``leaf'' user? > > It was in Jacques' example passwd file...I added it mainly as a 'stub' entry > for pointing to if someone wanted to add/create a new user account. It > should not be used in most instances (having actual user accounts on your > firewall isn't necessarily all that useful or prudent), so I changed the > /etc/shadow entry for this user to dis-allow logins by default. A standard security recommendation is to operate in the root account as *LITTLE* as possible. The lrp user, for me, was set up as a standard user for this purpose. > > [2] Should /home/leaf exist -- provided that we agree that such an user > > ought to exist? > > Probably, but let's see if I can rationalize my way out of an > oversight...Hmm...making a directory isn't that hard, and other than a > .profile entry, which isn't really necessary, it's just a place-holder > taking up space in /root...if we add a .profile entry, it takes up even more > space...but perhaps the best excuse..er reason it's not there, is you > shouldn't really create user accounts in the first place, and I did really > intend the leaf user to be either a stub entry you'd modify, or or a default > entry for any non-root owned files you might want to put in a package (so > they don't come up as user 100 on ls -l listings). /home/leaf (or /home/lrp) is the standard location that the user gets put to when they log in - so, yes, it ought to exist. Your opinion may vary... _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
