automatic adduser/addgroup in postinst (was Re: fingerd)

1996-05-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jason Eggleston wrote: > > > For those following this thread, someone else has been helping > > me off the list and figured out I didn't have a 'nobody' in my > > /etc/passwd file.

Re: fingerd

1996-05-04 Thread Jason Eggleston
I just added the correct entry for nobody, and it works fine now. I believe it is a bug, seeing as it was from a fresh install from the debian 1.1 beta. Maybe I should have said yes to the question of updating the /etc/passwd. I figured the initial installation would produce an adequate one n

Re: fingerd

1996-05-04 Thread Guy Maor
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jason Eggleston wrote: > For those following this thread, someone else has been helping me off the > list and figured out I didn't have a 'nobody' in my /etc/passwd file. The problem was that nobody had a shell of /dev/null (check this in your /etc/passwd to see if that's y

Re: fingerd

1996-05-04 Thread Jason Eggleston
chaph and castor are usc's hosts. I'm at bacon.eggleston.com (not up 24-7 yet, but up a lot, and not public either :)), and running Debian 1.1 beta. I haven't updated the linux part of my web page in ages... I'll do that right now. I should say that slackware completely crashed my system, but t

Re: fingerd

1996-05-03 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
I didn't have any trouble finger-ing you either at chaph.usc.edu or at castor.usc.edu. Perhaps you've solved the problem by now. If not, what site did you have trouble with? Also, what versions of netbase (which contains tcpd) and netstd (which contains in.fingerd) are you using? I notice tha

Re: fingerd

1996-05-03 Thread Jason Eggleston
x27;t work. Jason Eggleston http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jegglest/ On Thu, 2 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Jason Eggleston writes: > Jason> How does one get this to work? It's running but it won't let other > Jason> hosts finger me. The man page says t

Re: fingerd

1996-05-03 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Jason Eggleston writes: Jason> How does one get this to work? It's running but it won't let other Jason> hosts finger me. The man page says to add -f to the fingerd Jason> command, but where and how? Quick shot from the hip: I bet you are looking at the wrong config

fingerd

1996-05-02 Thread Jason Eggleston
How does one get this to work? It's running but it won't let other hosts finger me. The man page says to add -f to the fingerd command, but where and how? Jason Eggleston http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jegglest/