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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-tools-createfiles">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="createfiles.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Creating Essential Files and Symlinks</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-tools-createfiles">
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| 14 | <primary sortas="e-/etc/passwd">/etc/passwd</primary>
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| 15 | </indexterm>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <indexterm zone="ch-tools-createfiles">
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| 18 | <primary sortas="e-/etc/group">/etc/group</primary>
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| 19 | </indexterm>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <indexterm zone="ch-tools-createfiles">
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| 22 | <primary sortas="e-/var/run/utmp">/var/run/utmp</primary>
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| 23 | </indexterm>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="ch-tools-createfiles">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="e-/var/log/btmp">/var/log/btmp</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <indexterm zone="ch-tools-createfiles">
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| 30 | <primary sortas="e-/var/log/lastlog">/var/log/lastlog</primary>
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| 31 | </indexterm>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <indexterm zone="ch-tools-createfiles">
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| 34 | <primary sortas="e-/var/log/wtmp">/var/log/wtmp</primary>
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| 35 | </indexterm>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <para>Historically, Linux maintains a list of the mounted file systems in the
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| 38 | file <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>. Modern kernels maintain this list
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| 39 | internally and exposes it to the user via the <filename
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| 40 | class="directory">/proc</filename> filesystem. To satisfy utilities that
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| 41 | expect the presence of <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>, create the following
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| 42 | symbolic link:</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <screen><userinput>ln -sv /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab</userinput></screen>
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| 45 |
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[6e18f2f] | 46 | <para>Create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file to be
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| 47 | referenced in some test suites, and in one of Perl's configuration files
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| 48 | as well:</para>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
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| 51 |
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[fcc02767] | 52 | <para>In order for user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> to be
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| 53 | able to login and for the name <quote>root</quote> to be recognized, there
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| 54 | must be relevant entries in the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and
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| 55 | <filename>/etc/group</filename> files.</para>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <para>Create the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file by running the following
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| 58 | command:</para>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <screen revision="sysv"><userinput>cat > /etc/passwd << "EOF"
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| 61 | <literal>root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
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| 62 | bin:x:1:1:bin:/dev/null:/bin/false
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| 63 | daemon:x:6:6:Daemon User:/dev/null:/bin/false
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[a892a14] | 64 | messagebus:x:18:18:D-Bus Message Daemon User:/run/dbus:/bin/false
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[fcc02767] | 65 | nobody:x:99:99:Unprivileged User:/dev/null:/bin/false</literal>
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| 66 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <screen revision="systemd"><userinput>cat > /etc/passwd << "EOF"
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| 69 | <literal>root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
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| 70 | bin:x:1:1:bin:/dev/null:/bin/false
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| 71 | daemon:x:6:6:Daemon User:/dev/null:/bin/false
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| 72 | messagebus:x:18:18:D-Bus Message Daemon User:/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
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| 73 | systemd-bus-proxy:x:72:72:systemd Bus Proxy:/:/bin/false
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| 74 | systemd-journal-gateway:x:73:73:systemd Journal Gateway:/:/bin/false
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| 75 | systemd-journal-remote:x:74:74:systemd Journal Remote:/:/bin/false
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| 76 | systemd-journal-upload:x:75:75:systemd Journal Upload:/:/bin/false
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| 77 | systemd-network:x:76:76:systemd Network Management:/:/bin/false
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| 78 | systemd-resolve:x:77:77:systemd Resolver:/:/bin/false
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| 79 | systemd-timesync:x:78:78:systemd Time Synchronization:/:/bin/false
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| 80 | systemd-coredump:x:79:79:systemd Core Dumper:/:/bin/false
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| 81 | nobody:x:99:99:Unprivileged User:/dev/null:/bin/false</literal>
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| 82 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <para>The actual password for <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
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[387a32af] | 85 | will be set later.</para>
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[fcc02767] | 86 |
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| 87 | <para>Create the <filename>/etc/group</filename> file by running the following
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| 88 | command:</para>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | <screen revision="sysv"><userinput>cat > /etc/group << "EOF"
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| 91 | <literal>root:x:0:
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| 92 | bin:x:1:daemon
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| 93 | sys:x:2:
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| 94 | kmem:x:3:
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| 95 | tape:x:4:
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| 96 | tty:x:5:
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| 97 | daemon:x:6:
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| 98 | floppy:x:7:
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| 99 | disk:x:8:
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| 100 | lp:x:9:
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| 101 | dialout:x:10:
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| 102 | audio:x:11:
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| 103 | video:x:12:
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| 104 | utmp:x:13:
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| 105 | usb:x:14:
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| 106 | cdrom:x:15:
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| 107 | adm:x:16:
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| 108 | messagebus:x:18:
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| 109 | input:x:24:
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| 110 | mail:x:34:
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| 111 | kvm:x:61:
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| 112 | wheel:x:97:
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| 113 | nogroup:x:99:
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| 114 | users:x:999:</literal>
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| 115 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <screen revision="systemd"><userinput>cat > /etc/group << "EOF"
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| 118 | <literal>root:x:0:
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| 119 | bin:x:1:daemon
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| 120 | sys:x:2:
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| 121 | kmem:x:3:
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| 122 | tape:x:4:
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| 123 | tty:x:5:
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| 124 | daemon:x:6:
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| 125 | floppy:x:7:
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| 126 | disk:x:8:
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| 127 | lp:x:9:
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| 128 | dialout:x:10:
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| 129 | audio:x:11:
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| 130 | video:x:12:
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| 131 | utmp:x:13:
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| 132 | usb:x:14:
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| 133 | cdrom:x:15:
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| 134 | adm:x:16:
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| 135 | messagebus:x:18:
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| 136 | systemd-journal:x:23:
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| 137 | input:x:24:
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| 138 | mail:x:34:
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| 139 | kvm:x:61:
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| 140 | systemd-bus-proxy:x:72:
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| 141 | systemd-journal-gateway:x:73:
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| 142 | systemd-journal-remote:x:74:
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| 143 | systemd-journal-upload:x:75:
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| 144 | systemd-network:x:76:
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| 145 | systemd-resolve:x:77:
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| 146 | systemd-timesync:x:78:
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| 147 | systemd-coredump:x:79:
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| 148 | wheel:x:97:
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| 149 | nogroup:x:99:
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| 150 | users:x:999:</literal>
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| 151 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 152 |
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| 153 | <para>The created groups are not part of any standard—they are groups
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[387a32af] | 154 | decided on in part by the requirements of the Udev configuration in Chapter
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| 155 | 9, and in part by common convention employed by a number of existing Linux
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| 156 | distributions. In addition, some test suites rely on specific users or
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| 157 | groups. The Linux Standard Base (LSB, available at <ulink
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| 158 | url="http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/lsb.shtml"/>) only recommends that,
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| 159 | besides the group <systemitem class="groupname">root</systemitem> with a
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| 160 | Group ID (GID) of 0, a group <systemitem class="groupname">bin</systemitem>
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| 161 | with a GID of 1 be present. All other group names and GIDs can be chosen
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| 162 | freely by the system administrator since well-written programs do not depend
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| 163 | on GID numbers, but rather use the group's name.</para>
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[fcc02767] | 164 |
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| 165 | <para>Some tests in <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/> need a regular
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| 166 | user. We add this user here and delete this account at the end of that
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| 167 | chapter.</para>
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| 168 |
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| 169 | <screen><userinput>echo "tester:x:$(ls -n $(tty) | cut -d" " -f3):101::/home/tester:/bin/bash" >> /etc/passwd
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| 170 | echo "tester:x:101:" >> /etc/group
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| 171 | install -o tester -d /home/tester</userinput></screen>
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| 172 |
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| 173 | <para>To remove the <quote>I have no name!</quote> prompt, start a new
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| 174 | shell. Since the
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| 175 | <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename>
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| 176 | files have been created, user name and group name resolution will now
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| 177 | work:</para>
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| 178 |
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| 179 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
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| 180 |
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| 181 | <para>Note the use of the <parameter>+h</parameter> directive. This tells
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| 182 | <command>bash</command> not to use its internal path hashing. Without this
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| 183 | directive, <command>bash</command> would remember the paths to binaries it has
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| 184 | executed. To ensure the use of the newly compiled binaries as soon as they are
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| 185 | installed, the <parameter>+h</parameter> directive will be used for the duration
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[387a32af] | 186 | of this and the next chapter.</para>
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[fcc02767] | 187 |
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| 188 | <para>The <command>login</command>, <command>agetty</command>, and
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| 189 | <command>init</command> programs (and others) use a number of log
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| 190 | files to record information such as who was logged into the system and
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| 191 | when. However, these programs will not write to the log files if they
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| 192 | do not already exist. Initialize the log files and give them
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| 193 | proper permissions:</para>
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| 194 |
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| 195 | <screen><userinput>touch /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,faillog,wtmp}
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| 196 | chgrp -v utmp /var/log/lastlog
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| 197 | chmod -v 664 /var/log/lastlog
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| 198 | chmod -v 600 /var/log/btmp</userinput></screen>
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| 199 |
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| 200 | <para>The <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> file records all logins and
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| 201 | logouts. The <filename>/var/log/lastlog</filename> file records when each
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| 202 | user last logged in. The <filename>/var/log/faillog</filename> file records
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| 203 | failed login attempts. The <filename>/var/log/btmp</filename> file records
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| 204 | the bad login attempts.</para>
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| 205 |
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| 206 | <note><para>The <filename>/run/utmp</filename> file records the users that
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| 207 | are currently logged in. This file is created dynamically in the boot
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| 208 | scripts.</para></note>
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| 209 |
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| 210 | </sect1>
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