Added user and group nobody for coreutils tests

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Jeremy Utley 2003-08-31 21:06:48 +00:00
parent 087e584f62
commit 09c1e758b6
3 changed files with 13 additions and 4 deletions

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</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>August 31, 2003 [jeremy] - Added user nobody to
passwd and group files, so coreutils tests will pass.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>August 30, 2003 [jeremy] - Updated fix-includes
patch to GCC 3.3.1</para></listitem>

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<para>In order for <emphasis>root</emphasis> to be able to login and for the
name "root" to be recognized, there need to be relevant entries in the
<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and
<filename>/etc/group</filename> files.</para>
<filename>/etc/group</filename> files. Also, to support one of the coreutils
tests, we will also create the user and group nobody, which is almost
universally present on Linux computers.</para>
<para>Create the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file by running the
following command:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>echo "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash" &gt; /etc/passwd</userinput></screen></para>
<para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/passwd &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
nobody:x:1000:1000:nobody:/:/bin/bash
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para>
<para>The actual password for <emphasis>root</emphasis> (the "x" here is
just a placeholder) will be set later.</para>
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lp:x:9:
dialout:x:10:
audio:x:11:
nobody:x:1000:
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para>
<para>The created groups aren't part of any standard -- they are the groups

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<!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml">
<!ENTITY version "20030830">
<!ENTITY releasedate "August 30th, 2003">
<!ENTITY version "20030831">
<!ENTITY releasedate "August 31th, 2003">
<!ENTITY nbsp " ">
<!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">