01-29-2009
Also, check the user id of the user johcham and the group grant against the user id of root and other special users (in the password and group file)
It is remotely possible you have a security breach.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Is there a very easy and configurable method to lock a user into their home directory?
I've checked on chroot() methodology.....but i'm not to excited about copying around ( or symlinking) libraries..binaries....etc.
Thought about altering the groups via chgrp...to only allow read access to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: thomas.jones
1 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there any command to find to which group u ser belongs (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: radhika03
3 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
How can I check if a particular user id belongs to a group?
(ie. how to check if the current user `whoami` is part of the a certain group? do i use the group name of group id?)
Thanks in advance (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rockysfr
2 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I would like to know how to find out the home directory of a particular user..
eg,
If am the root , then my Home directory will be /
if say am just a user logging into the terminal then my home dir would change,
so accordingly i would like to know how to find it out...
I know that... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: wrapster
7 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am trying to find out all users who still have a home dir but do not exist anymore in /etc/passwd file. Here is what I did but I am getting the opposit of what I want. Any suggestion?
for USAGERD in `find /home -type d -exec ls -d {} \;`
do
USAGER=${USAGERD##/*/}... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: qfwfq
4 Replies
6. Red Hat
Hi,
By default user's home directory will be /home/$user.
I want to change it to /javauser/$user. How can I do it?
Thanks
Jeevan. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jredx
5 Replies
7. Solaris
Hi all
i am using solaris 10, i am creating user with
useradd -d/home/user -m -s /bin/sh user
user is created with in the following path
/export/home/user (auto mount)
i need the user to be created like this
(/home as default home directory )
useradd -d /home/user -m -s /bin/sh... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kalyankalyan
2 Replies
8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
how to use ldapsearch to find all the netgroups a user belongs to? It's Solaris. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jalite19
1 Replies
9. Linux
I have setup a group quota for better disk usage.
What i am doing is to setup a quota with Samba share. I created user1,user2 and group project1 which belongs to /home/project1 dir. Quota is implemented on project1 group to write 100 MB on this share and This is working fine if a user1 and user2... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sunnysthakur
3 Replies
10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Whenever i switch from root to another user, by doing su - user, it takes me to home directory of user. This is very annoying as i want to be in same dir to run different commands as root sometimes and sometimes as normal user.
How to fix this? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: syncmaster
1 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
gshadow
GSHADOW(5) File Formats and Conversions GSHADOW(5)
NAME
gshadow - shadowed group file
DESCRIPTION
/etc/gshadow contains the shadowed information for group accounts.
This file must not be readable by regular users if password security is to be maintained.
Each line of this file contains the following colon-separated fields:
group name
It must be a valid group name, which exist on the system.
encrypted password
Refer to crypt(3) for details on how this string is interpreted.
If the password field contains some string that is not a valid result of crypt(3), for instance ! or *, users will not be able to use a
unix password to access the group (but group members do not need the password).
The password is used when an user who is not a member of the group wants to gain the permissions of this group (see newgrp(1)).
This field may be empty, in which case only the group members can gain the group permissions.
A password field which starts with a exclamation mark means that the password is locked. The remaining characters on the line represent
the password field before the password was locked.
This password supersedes any password specified in /etc/group.
administrators
It must be a comma-separated list of user names.
Administrators can change the password or the members of the group.
Administrators also have the same permissions as the members (see below).
members
It must be a comma-separated list of user names.
Members can access the group without being prompted for a password.
You should use the same list of users as in /etc/group.
FILES
/etc/group
Group account information.
/etc/gshadow
Secure group account information.
SEE ALSO
gpasswd(5), group(5), grpck(8), grpconv(8), newgrp(1).
shadow-utils 4.1.5.1 05/25/2012 GSHADOW(5)