[6696] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Outstanding redhat-4.0 problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen Francom)
Fri Nov 29 14:47:44 1996
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 03:52:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Allen Francom <redhat_list@numedics.com>
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Is userdel supposed to do something with /var/spool/mail/(deaduser) ???
My userdel doesn't seem to give a hoot.
( GIVEN: RedHat 3.0.3 hacked up to new kernel levels... Sry. )
THX
-AEF
On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Borg wrote:
> Chris Evans wrote:
> .......
> >
> > And I feel like whinging:
> >
> > 1) chfn appears to allow users to change their real names. I intensely
> > dislike this behaviour.
>
> This is normal. At a college where I study all SunOS and HP-UX
> behave that way. Every year, administrators run a script that adds
> about a hundred new users with the same name "Studentid" name and
> it's really nice that users can change the default name. So, you
> shouldn't blame Linux: chfn works the same on some other Unices as well.
>
> > 2) poor amount of logs taken; I'm used to all connections being logged by
> > tcp_wrappers in the form of "service: connect from a@b" etc.
>
> Have you checked /var/log/secure??
>
> > 3) (nasty). The adduser command (which you have to use if you enable
> > shadow) makes an entry in /etc/shadow that is broken. For example, passwd
> > will NOT change the password (despite claiming to) until you manually fix
> > the numeric fields in /etc/shadow.
>
> Hmm... I haven't noticed that. All users I add are added properly.
> I do have complain about "userdel" command tho: it doesn't make a
> proper cleaning: an entry gets left behind in /etc/groups and
> /etc/shadow.
> BTW, I am running a version of shadow someone announced on the list
> about
> a week ago, not the "official" RH shadow package.
>
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