Changeset 29d3017a

Timestamp:

01/11/2021 10:20:11 PM (3 years ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

0c8e745

Parents:

a2082e52

Message:

Fix sed for password hash

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@24103 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/prog/gitserver.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/prog/gitserver.xml

@@ -58 +58 @@
         You will need to be user <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem>
         for the initial portion of configuration. Create the <systemitem
-        class="username">git</systemitem> user and group with the following
-        commands:
+        class="username">git</systemitem> user and group and set and unusable
+        password hash with the following commands:
       </para>
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g &gitgid; git &amp;&amp;
 useradd -c "git Owner" -d /home/git -m -g git -s /usr/bin/git-shell -u &gituid; git &amp;&amp;
-sed -i '/^git:/s/^git:.*:/git:NP:/' /etc/shadow</userinput></screen>
-
-      <para>
-        Create some files and directories in the home directory of the git user
+sed -i '/^git:/s/^git:[^:]:/git:NP:/' /etc/shadow</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>
+        Putting in an unuable password hash (replacing the <literal>!</literal>
+        by <literal>NP</literal>) unlocks the account but it cannot be used
+        to login via password authentication. That is required by 
+        <application>sshd</application> to work properly.
+        Next, create some files and directories in the home directory of the git user
         allowing access to the git repository using ssh keys.
       </para>