So? How does this explain why they reappear if removed? If I had a NOLOG guest pop backup up on my zVM system after I removed it .. I'd consider it a bug, regardless - and a security violation to boot.
Scott On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:39 PM, John Summerfield < [email protected]> wrote: > Marcy Cortes wrote: > >> I keep getting rid of this userid /etc/passwd, and something puts it back. >> SLES 10. >> How do I make it stop doing that? >> Also uucp and ftp. >> >> Bad bad bad. >> > > Consider them documentation. I their shells are set to "/sbin/nologin" > or similar, nobody's going to login with them. Root can su to them, but > if you don't trust root, you know what you are:-) > > I the accounts are locked (and I'm sure they are), then nobody else can > su to them. > > The document and (in a sense) reserve the UID and GUID their files would > have if they had any (and in some systems, games does). "games" is used > to store scores in pissing contests. > > This is on RHEL-clone: > [r...@bobtail ~]# touch /tmp/zink > [r...@bobtail ~]# chown 9999.9999 /tmp/zink > [r...@bobtail ~]# ls -l /tmp/zink > -rw-r--r-- 1 9999 9999 0 Nov 3 10:31 /tmp/zink > [r...@bobtail ~]# > > Having those names in /etc/passwd has no implications about ownership of > any files that may be created. > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > [email protected] [email protected] > -- Advice > http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html<http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > > You cannot reply off-list:-) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
