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Re: master.passwd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Nov 9 03:05:04 1995

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 03:04:39 -0500
To: David C Zhang <davidz@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[424] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>

> 1) should accounts 'daemon, 'operator, 'games, 'ingres have valid
> shells?  My daily insecurity output tells me they shouldn't, but
> this is the default by netbsd.

The default is correct, they should not have valid shells.

I promised Yoav I would finish working on a better/more-consistent
version of the security report (it spews a lot on a regular basis.  It
shouldn't do that. It should only say something when stuff is broken),
but I haven't gotten to it yet.
Maybe I'll get it done on Friday.

--jhawk

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