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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 27 July 2004 09:02 pm, Ard Righ wrote: |
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>>On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 10:33, Marc-Eric Dupuis wrote: |
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>>>I have a guest account on my fresh gentoo install and the only server |
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>>>here is sshd: |
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>>>baal@artsucks baal $ grep guest /etc/passwd |
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>>>guest:x:405:100:guest:/dev/null:/dev/null |
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>> Perhaps we should 'bug' it, and see what the Dev comments come back as |
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>>? I was under the impression that 'guest' was a legacy account for |
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>>Samba, since SMB users try the 'guest' share, while just browsing |
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>>between machines ? |
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> many baselayout system accounts wont get trimmed until GLEP 27 is pushed |
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> through |
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> in this case, guest would get moved to samba once we see GLEP 27 added |
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Unless the ebuild changes the default guest user, Samba 3.x defaults to 'nobody' |
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for the guest user if one is not defined in the smb.conf. Unless there is |
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something out there that really needs it, it should probably just be removed. |
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Andrew Gaffney |
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Network Administrator |
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