[RFC] Globally creating a user and a group "root"
Corinna Vinschen
vinschen@redhat.com
Thu Nov 27 12:43:00 GMT 2003
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:37:11AM -0000, Morrison, John wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:24:55AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:58:52AM -0000, Morrison, John wrote:
> >>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>> I don't know exactly
> >>>> but it's possible that W2K doesn't have these SeDenyWhatever user
> >>>> rights.
> >>>
> >>> editrights -a SeDenyRemoteInteractiveLogonRight -u root
> >>>
> >>> was the one that failed. Would it be best (assuming these
> >>> last 3 are optional) to 2> /dev/null them? Is there any other info
> >>> that would help?
> >>
> >> Er... only this one? Hmm, that makes sense, sort of. Look like
> >> this right only exist since XP.
> >>
> >> I'm reluctant to devnull them. There might be a real error covered
> >> when doing this. I'll better add another variable to check if
> >> running under XP or newer.
>
> OK :)
>
> > ping! ping! ping!
> >
> > New create-root script attached!
> >
> > This script should do it right now. Additionally I changed the way
> > how the password is read to using the `read -s' option to hide what's
> > actually typed in.
>
> But you display it in the next echo...
Ouch! I'll fix that.
> > Can you give this script another test?
>
> Other than that it works fine :)
>
> Shame theres no way of setting the password to never expire :(
There is! The passwd tool in the current snapshots already have the
option -e to switch expiry off. If you have another look into the
script, you'll see that I check the version number of passwd, so I
know if it already has that functionality or not ;-)
Corinna
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