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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Automating /etc/passwd maintenance Post 302520713 by ygemici on Monday 9th of May 2011 03:25:46 AM

05-09-2011

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if your system is similiar below files (so like redhat variants) you can try to check these

Code:

# cat /etc/login.defs |grep -i id
#   Directory where mailboxes reside, _or_ name of file, relative to the
# Min/max values for automatic uid selection in useradd
UID_MIN                   500
UID_MAX                 60000
# Min/max values for automatic gid selection in groupadd
GID_MIN                   500
GID_MAX                 60000
# On RH systems, we do. This option is overridden with the -m flag on

nfsnobody is a special user which used restrict root access with mapping (rpc.idmapd) root id to nfsnobody id with root_squash option that is nfsmount default.
usually it's id is 65534 (16 bit systems ) or 4294967294 (32 bit systems and probably 64 bit) for prevent the ID from running into a valid user or group ID in the nfs server.

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mkpwdict

mkpwdict(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      mkpwdict(1M)

NAME

       mkpwdict - maintain password-strength checking database

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/mkpwdict [-s  dict1,... ,dictN] [-d destination-path]

DESCRIPTION

       The mkpwdict command adds words to the dictionary-lookup database used by pam_authtok_check(5) and passwd(1).

       Files containing words to be added to the database can be specified on the command-line using the -s flag. These source files should have a
       single word per line, much like /usr/share/lib/dict/words.

       If -s is omitted, mkpwdict will use the value of DICTIONLIST specified in /etc/default/passwd (see passwd(1)).

       The database is created in the directory specified by the -d option. If this option is omitted, mkpwdict uses  the  value  of  DICTIONDBDIR
       specified in /etc/default/passwd (see passwd(1)). The default location is /var/passwd.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -s

	   Specifies a comma-separated list of files containing words to be added to the dictionary-lookup database.

       -d

	   Specifies the target location of the dictionary-database.

FILES

       /etc/default/passwd

	   See passwd(1).

       /var/passwd

	   default destination directory

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       passwd(1), attributes(5), pam_authtok_check(5)

SunOS 5.10							    1 Jun 2004							      mkpwdict(1M)