[gentoo-dev] User

[gentoo-dev] User

[Sebastian Werner]

Hey guys,

Why is in /etc a passwd and a passwd-
               a shadow and a shadow-
               a group	and a group-

it theems that each pair is equal... gentoo uses pam for authentifiction, or
what?

And which is the normal why in gentoo to add a user? And why su don't work
for a user which was added with the KDE-UserManager?

A beginnes question i think... but at the moment i have no idea,

thanks,

sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] User

[Achim Gottinger]

Sebastian Werner wrote:
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> Why is in /etc a passwd and a passwd-
>                a shadow and a shadow-
>                a group  and a group-
> 
> it theems that each pair is equal... gentoo uses pam for authentifiction, or
> what?

gentoo uses the pwdb pam module and shadow for authentification.

> 
> And which is the normal why in gentoo to add a user? And why su don't work
> for a user which was added with the KDE-UserManager?

because a user must be in the wheel group to be allowed to su
use 
useradd -g users -G wheel -m username
to create such an user

bye achim~

> 
> A beginnes question i think... but at the moment i have no idea,
> 
> thanks,
> 
> sebastian
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] User

[Parag Mehta]

Hi Sebastian

ill try to help you though even i'm new to it.
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Sebastian Werner wrote:

> for a user which was added with the KDE-UserManager?
> 

u need to add the user to group wheel

using :

usermod -g users  username -G wheel

i hope i'm correct in the above syntax.

best regards,

parag mehta

Re: [gentoo-dev] User

[Ben Lutgens]

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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:57:40PM +0200, Sebastian Werner wrote:
>Hey guys,
>
>Why is in /etc a passwd and a passwd-
>               a shadow and a shadow-
>               a group	and a group-

I am pretty sure they are backups.

>
>it theems that each pair is equal... gentoo uses pam for authentifiction, or
>what?

Yes. We use PAM.


>
>
>And which is the normal why in gentoo to add a user? And why su don't work
>for a user which was added with the KDE-UserManager?

You need to add the user to group "wheel"

HTH
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AW: [gentoo-dev] User

[Sebastian Werner]

Great,

but why the groupname for su is wheel?
One of the last groups i would try, normally...

Sebastian

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Sebastian Werner wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Why is in /etc a passwd and a passwd-
>                a shadow and a shadow-
>                a group  and a group-
>
> it theems that each pair is equal... gentoo uses pam for authentifiction,
or
> what?

gentoo uses the pwdb pam module and shadow for authentification.

>
> And which is the normal why in gentoo to add a user? And why su don't work
> for a user which was added with the KDE-UserManager?

because a user must be in the wheel group to be allowed to su
use
useradd -g users -G wheel -m username
to create such an user

bye achim~

>
> A beginnes question i think... but at the moment i have no idea,
>
> thanks,
>
> sebastian
>
> _______________________________________________
> gentoo-dev mailing list
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev

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Re: AW: [gentoo-dev] User

[Parag Mehta]

Hi Sebastian

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Sebastian Werner wrote:

> Great,
> 
> but why the groupname for su is wheel?
> One of the last groups i would try, normally...


because the distro is based on freebsd and linux and openbsd. the
portage system comes from freebsd. and the security part also come from
freebsd and linux.

best regards,

parag mehta