[lug] Fun with being hacked

[John Karns]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, George Sexton said:

> Just out of curiosity, what is the UID on the GDM account in the password
> file. On my RedHat install, its 42. Is it 0 now in yours?
>
> Also, I noticed on my system that the GDM account has a valid shell. I
> looked at the RedHat RPM and it looks like when the GDM entry is created, it
> doesn't specify a shell. This is probably a defect. It should have
> /bin/false like the other system accounts.

Interesting that my SuSE 7.1 install also *had* a bash shell - I just
changed it ...

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net