RE: tftp question

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Alan Peery wrote:

>>in.tftpd[2225]: cannot set groups for user nobody
>>
>>
>Sounds to me like there isn't a "nobody" group in /etc/group--or that
>the user's group as defined in /etc/passwd doesn't exist.

Alan,
I looked into this.  Here's the 'nobody' entry from /etc/passwd:
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin

My (limited) understanding of this file tells me that the UID and GID for
nobody are both 99, that nobody's home directory is /, and nobody is not
allowed to log in (I think that's what /sbin/nologin means...).  Here's the
'nobody' entry from /etc/group:
nobody:x:99:

>From the 'group" manpage, 99 is the GID of the nobody group; also, a
userlist can (should?) follow the trailing :.  At first, I thought that the
reason I was having trouble was that the entry in /etc/group did not have a
comma-separated userlist, so I changed the line in /etc/group to:
nobody:x:99:nobody

I then set the tftp user back to nobody and restarted xinetd and tried out
the TFTP server; still got the same errors in /var/log/messages.  So, I
think this all means that I have a properly defined nobody user and nobody
group, but I am not positive...

Also, I have not modfied the group or passwd file since installing RH 9.0...

Thanks,
Jason

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