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Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

From Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)
Date 2018-01-10 04:50 +0100
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On 09.01.18 15:04, Christian Groessler wrote:
> I just edited the password file directly, "vipw" and "vipw -s", and renamed
> the pi user.

When doing that, there is merit in running pwck before any powerdown/reboot, 
as any illegality in a line stopped processing of all following when I
last tried mucking it up. (A good reason for the root entry to be first.)

And for vigr there's grpck.

That's all we had in the decades before the newfangled useradd stuff
came along.

Erik

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UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in  systemd) Jason <electron@emypeople.net> - 2018-01-09 05:10 +0100
  Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in  systemd) Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org> - 2018-01-09 16:00 +0100
    Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in  systemd) Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-09 16:30 +0100
      Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in  systemd) Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org> - 2018-01-09 18:10 +0100
    Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in  systemd) Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-01-10 04:50 +0100

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