> 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. > [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). Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
