Alan Peery wrote: >>in.tftpd[2225]: cannot set groups for user nobody >> >> >Sounds to me like there isn't a "nobody" group in /etc/group--or that >the user's group as defined in /etc/passwd doesn't exist.
Alan, I looked into this. Here's the 'nobody' entry from /etc/passwd: nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin My (limited) understanding of this file tells me that the UID and GID for nobody are both 99, that nobody's home directory is /, and nobody is not allowed to log in (I think that's what /sbin/nologin means...). Here's the 'nobody' entry from /etc/group: nobody:x:99: >From the 'group" manpage, 99 is the GID of the nobody group; also, a userlist can (should?) follow the trailing :. At first, I thought that the reason I was having trouble was that the entry in /etc/group did not have a comma-separated userlist, so I changed the line in /etc/group to: nobody:x:99:nobody I then set the tftp user back to nobody and restarted xinetd and tried out the TFTP server; still got the same errors in /var/log/messages. So, I think this all means that I have a properly defined nobody user and nobody group, but I am not positive... Also, I have not modfied the group or passwd file since installing RH 9.0... Thanks, Jason -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
