At 09:44 AM 6/9/00 +0530, Sandeep Shetty wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> After installing the red hat linux 5.2 i could find some of the
>user accounts such as 'games' etc. is the password same as the user
>account.
>thancs in advance
Typically, accounts like "games" -- standard accounts created by the system
for system use, not for actual logins -- my system has about a dozen such
accounts -- do not have passwords. That is, the password field in
/etc/passwd or /etc/shadow (I don't recall if RH had moved to shadow
passwords by 5.2) contains a single asterisk (*), signifying that the
account has NO valid password.
Look at the password field in the appropriate file to see if the account has
a password at all. Unless you assigned one explicitly, I'll bet it doesn't.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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