From 09c1e758b639de7a4f632a4e22c46c2863507714 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Utley <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:06:48 +0000
Subject: Added user and group nobody for coreutils tests

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2707 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter06/pwdgroup.xml | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter06/pwdgroup.xml')

diff --git a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
index 05b712710..c26f90ae5 100644
--- a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
+++ b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
@@ -5,12 +5,17 @@
 <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>
@@ -31,6 +36,7 @@ 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
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