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That's what I thought when I saw that account. I just saw it like it was |
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telling me not to use that account or to force any attempt to use that |
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account to fail. I think some applications require a guest account. I'm |
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not sure but as I googled and search the gentoo forums for the guest |
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account in passwd I found a lot of information and threads involving |
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samba. I didn't read all that information so this is only a wild guess. |
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William Kenworthy wrote: |
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| Is there an advantage forcing what would be a common user name to |
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| /dev/null? If a program were to add a guest account to the password |
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| file, and one already exists that is "nullified", this may be a security |
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| On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 07:25, bryank@××××××.edu wrote: |
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|>It is in the default /etc/passwd from the rc-scripts-*.tar.bz2 in |
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|>baselayout. |
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|>why, I'd recommend removing it. |
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|>--Kevin |
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