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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Then discovered that we need a password for jim, not 
> > just the Enter key, and used adduser to fix this up 
> 
> If all you want to change is the password, the passwd
> command does that.

Just type passwd as root or as the user?  If as the user, we did not have 
any way to log in since we had somehow signed up without setting a 
password but it would not accept the enter key as a password.

> 
> > Can we forget shadow.tgz and simply hand-edit /etc/passwd 
> > to add users and  change their passwords?
> 
> Yes (that's the method I used to recommend in the past).
> The only problem with that is the only password you can
> set is the null password (anything else needs an encryption
> routine).

Null password being the enter key?  That would be just fine.  Nobody is 
going to sneak in and steeal our accounts.

> > /bin/bash - is this the default shell?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Now it seems we need to set some permissions in order to 
> > use the account.
> 
> If you manually create a george account, you will need to give 
> ownership of the /home/george directory to george:
> ----------------------------
> chown -R george /home/george
> ----------------------------

/home/user/george?
That is where our account ended up, under /home/user

No directory, logging in with HOME=/

Did we forget to do something else too?
I presume we got the default but if we set it would that avoid getting 
this message?

I went to our user account and typed 'lynx' and got
unable to access document (hotlist.html).  DO we need to make copies of 
all the config files used by programs in the user directory, or change 
permissions on them somehow? 

links - unable to find or create links config directory.

kermit loads, but i bet the .kermrc directory in /root won't work here.

I think you said to dial as root and then go online as a user to avoid 
security problems.  

> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
> 
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