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Re: +:*:0:0:::/bin/false does not work. Why?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Swen Thuemmler)
Fri Jul 7 11:19:17 1995
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 11:20:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Swen Thuemmler <swen@uni-paderborn.de>
To: beznosov@fiu.edu
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu, Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950707040559.136B-100000@sid.presence.co.uk>
[mod: quoting trimmed. --okir]
On Fri, 7 Jul 1995, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> This was not completely implemented in libraries prior to libc-4.6.27.
> Are you using an earlier version, perhaps?
Overwriting field in the general +:::::: entry was not implemented prior to
libc-4.6.30. Unfortunately this lib was not officially released, so you will
either have to stick with this behaviour or upgrade to a newer version
(libc-4.7.4, but this means changing the filesystem layout or switching to
ELF), or you may use the pwd/* and grp/* routines from libc-4.7.4 in
libc-4.6.27, this means recompiling.
Sorry, no easy answer.
--Swen
