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authorGreg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-09-24 10:26:20 +0000
committerGreg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-09-24 10:26:20 +0000
commitc9fb357ffd3c05b917aaa722fae5f846a71a796e (patch)
treed3b0754c42e8d1f8c63418e345eb32c061d18567 /chapter06
parent96dfe0f5bf19f2de5e8650418bbf95f240579df9 (diff)
Remove the nobody user and group.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2876 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/pwdgroup.xml6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
index a12b3cc05..bd565daf9 100644
--- a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
+++ b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
@@ -4,16 +4,13 @@
<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.
-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>
+<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename> files.</para>
<para>Create the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file by running the following
command:</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
@@ -35,7 +32,6 @@ disk:x:8:
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