Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helps!karnak!john From: john@karnak.uucp (John B. Meaders Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: problem with inbound anonymous uucp sessions Keywords: Esix Sysvr3 UUCP anonymous Message-ID: <1990Oct4.031919.7421@karnak.uucp> Date: 4 Oct 90 03:19:19 GMT References: <2658@sud509.ed.ray.com> <2719@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Organization: Capitalist Warmongers, Inc. Lines: 35 In article <2719@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes: >In article <2658@sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com writes: > >| I currently have no password on the nuucp account. When there was a >| password, no systems were able to get in. Now there is one system that >| can, but others can't. This doesnt' seem to make any sense... > >| # grep uucp /etc/passwd >| uucp:x:5:5:0000-uucp(0000):/usr/lib/uucp: >| nuucp:x:10:10:0000-uucp(0000):/usr/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico > > Looks to me as though nuucp is "no login" now. That's what the :x: (or >any other one character) does. If you change that to :: you will have a >start at it. Esix has /etc/shadow. The x does not mean no login. NONE in /etc/shadow means no login. You might look at /etc/shadow. For login it should look something like this: system::7576:: the encrypted password goes after the first colon (the system does this), the number is when this entry was created (perhaps last updated too), a number goes after the 3rd colon and also the 4th colon. The 3rd number is the minimum number of days required between password changes, and the 4th number is the maximum number of days the password is valid. Esix sets these to 14 and 28 respectively when you create the password. I change the uucp logins to larger numbers so that I don't have to worry about having passwords expire before I am ready for them too. Hope this helps. -- John B. Meaders, Jr. 510 Manchester Ct., Hopewell, VA 23806 Voice: 804-458-2983 Net: john@karnak or {sequoia,sulaco,letni}!karnak!john