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NIS, /etc/passwd and '+::::::' question
- From: Tobias Burnus <burnus@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 01:12:11 +0200
- Message-id: <3BC6274B.27BBFC07@xxxxxxxx>
Hi,
YaST by default creates a '+::::::' entry for NIS in /etc/passwd. I read
that the entry should have a '*' in the second field in order to prevent
logins of the user '+' when NIS is down.
Is this a security problem under (SuSE) Linux or is this note a remedy
from an ancient ancestor? (I quick test didn't work, but I haven't tried
the +user, -@group etc. syntax I found in the FreeBSD passwd(4) but
neither in Linux passwd(4) nor in the yp*(*) of Thorsten Kukuk.)
Tobias
--
This above all: To thine own self be true / And it must follow as
the night the day / Thou canst not then be false to any man.
YaST by default creates a '+::::::' entry for NIS in /etc/passwd. I read
that the entry should have a '*' in the second field in order to prevent
logins of the user '+' when NIS is down.
Is this a security problem under (SuSE) Linux or is this note a remedy
from an ancient ancestor? (I quick test didn't work, but I haven't tried
the +user, -@group etc. syntax I found in the FreeBSD passwd(4) but
neither in Linux passwd(4) nor in the yp*(*) of Thorsten Kukuk.)
Tobias
--
This above all: To thine own self be true / And it must follow as
the night the day / Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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