From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C071381F3 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BA8AE0B21; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f172.google.com (mail-we0-f172.google.com [74.125.82.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 67813E0B06 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f172.google.com with SMTP id q58so7587897wes.31 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:19:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=GrLC4lgMJPOE6yr2pNEkelNpWzyxCTy3jfrvbbT31Tk=; b=BKFCB2BFqK1kqrO46aCPWmzQ/nlwvWPrhYOcnOsq9jfYd/hg0ajVja2SGRbov+b05R kjSgObtrqvRkqxJSCjxXoFyyYads3qZy5Ybr9+birtcQ7ISzXAePtJ9gENIOv2ymDH7E nvDC+ypSLRSl41cYAGMvDJAQMUgajnRSd2siy5gTjz6ft9ZTGe4YTM72GfGom48xvcyL Ir9NLZqN5RWvIz3jdARaDxKwRA3DiPcTqMr+25hLxGFLwzV+LR8bP74ZiSKsCZUU/bma vM0KbxjJ0Tg5Io8i5CZ1VydY8/SivXHTWYlO7DCtoX3SzR0NgmJta4RflC+aaGbG1u/0 o8FA== X-Received: by 10.194.175.66 with SMTP id by2mr283928wjc.59.1382419174939; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id iz19sm2507470wic.9.2013.10.21.22.19.33 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:19:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/passwd entry query Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 06:19:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.10.7-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.10.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <3948ccc0-5711-4df1-bc9a-488041449556@email.android.com> <52657FDC.6020501@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52657FDC.6020501@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart11818769.IFBKDEexu7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201310220619.29232.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ce4791cf-9fc2-4511-814e-f720e034024a X-Archives-Hash: 9cd65e7bf1763a4d0fecb9334e779086 --nextPart11818769.IFBKDEexu7 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 21 Oct 2013 20:26:20 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 10/21/2013 04:39 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Adam Carter wrote: > > I probably haven't looked at this file for years, but it contains > > =20 > > named:x:40:40:added by portage for bind:/etc/bind:/sbin/nologin > > #named:x:40:40:added by portage for bind:/etc/bind:/bin/bash > > =20 > > #postfix:x:207:207:added by portage for > > postfix:/var/spool/postfix:/sbin/nologin > > postfix:x:207:207:added by portage for > > postfix:/var/spool/postfix:/bin/bash > > =20 > > I've now changed postfix to nologin, and since then it has restarted > > cleanly and accpted new mail. > > =20 > > Does anyone have similar in their passwd or is this weird? > >=20 > > I have never seen comments in my /etc/passwd file. > > That would really cause some alarmbells to ring in my head. >=20 > I've seen comments like this when portage makes changes, specifically in > /etc/portage/package.* - usually when package atoms change. Don't know > why it would do that with /etc/passwd though. Maybe it's an ebuild bug? >=20 > Dan I have similar here for various packages, which have :/sbin/nologin, e.g.: pcscd:x:109:103:added by portage for pcsc-lite:/var/run/pcscd:/sbin/nologin ipsec:x:110:998:added by portage for strongswan:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin polkitd:x:111:997:added by portage for polkit:/var/lib/polkit-1:/sbin/nolog= in =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart11818769.IFBKDEexu7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJSZgrhAAoJELAdA+zwE4YeGv8H/2gdm+SufSKyokDNP+bFbE5U wcxmQI84bfeeVw39pKv2mkDGW4mUKgw19ZoGUDT3wHvdqbKlSFTqIxLEXHUTpGht QRtj2hVf3PDwxmelxoFuJRKbqNYRiVlFJujzEAx37MJk2nVeOyZ5kDNTWFDQ91bA GBp8RRQIfSxHCYQOdpHwRLftjJ7le6ePHRtgIT42ALi+xjmn0OK0r9WJxxfL6yLR GHAlkzZq4OG0A7QjdkGawhhfkpqfU/z48LlDjHOKGCGHcc6M7A+PUaWbd82d49d/ 0DKfhTmZX6ZkqjIRWlvldC4y1r3T/grDCeMzNNjbn7HGni3WfiG6mtd0ohtil10= =u3zw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart11818769.IFBKDEexu7--