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From: dcon@cbnewsc.att.com (david.r.connet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: No Passwd for nuucp
Summary: passwd command
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.140812.14028@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 26 Oct 90 14:08:12 GMT
References: <1990Oct22.211639.14436@mccc.uucp> <1990Oct25.155651.16447@eci386.uucp>
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In article <1990Oct25.155651.16447@eci386.uucp>, woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> In article <1990Oct22.211639.14436@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
> > I'd like to have nuucp with no passwd for anonymous uucp possibilities
> > but my SV/386 R3.2.2 insists on asking nuucp to choose a password!  How
> > can I convince UNIX that nuucp doesn't need a password?
> 
> Don't use sysadm (or face) to install new users, especially system type
> accounts.  Actually that's a little one-sided, but I never trust these
> fancy system admin. type things!  :-)
> 
> Login as root, make sure no-one else is using the system (at least
> make sure they don't run passwd, or chsh, etc.), and edit /etc/passwd.
> Add a new line for nuucp, with a home directory of /usr/spool/uucppublic
> and a shell of /usr/lib/uucp/uucico.  Make the password field blank,
> and choose a unique user-id, and unique group-id (if you don't already
> have a uulogins (or something similar) group.  Don't use the same
> user-id or group as uucp.
...etc...


Actually, the easiest way is to use the 'passwd' command.
The '-d' option says no passwd.  Hence:
	passwd -d nuucp
(you just have to turn off aging now, which I'm not sure how.
I just use the -x and -n options to set it forward a bit.)

Dave Connet
dcon@iwtng.att.com