On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:06:54PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
> > > Can someone please set me straight?
> >
> > chpass -a "toor::0:0::0:0:Nobody Important:/root:/sbin/nologin" toor
>
> Ahaaa! The quotes! Thank you!
Well, that, plus the fields for the change and expire times.
> > Note, howeve
> > Can someone please set me straight?
>
> chpass -a "toor::0:0::0:0:Nobody Important:/root:/sbin/nologin" toor
Ahaaa! The quotes! Thank you!
> Note, however, that you're setting the password for this user
> to a null
> password, allowing any local user in wheel to "su -m toor" if you have
>
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:47:15PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to learn how to use chpass to change a user's name.
> I'm not getting anywhere, I've read the man page and Googled, but can't
> find an example.
>
> I want to change toor's name to 'Nobody Important'.
> I do:
> # chp
Hi,
I'm trying to learn how to use chpass to change a user's name.
I'm not getting anywhere, I've read the man page and Googled, but can't
find an example.
I want to change toor's name to 'Nobody Important'.
I do:
# chpass -a toor::0:0:Nobody Important:/root:/sbin/nologin toor
And I get:
Corrupted
