Re: access to log directory denied

John White <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 07:28:58PM +1000, Andy Gayton wrote:
> [root] /etc/tinydns/log# ls -l
> total 12
> drwxr-sr-x    2 Gdnslog  Gdnslog      4096 Aug 31 01:40 main
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           51 Aug 30 03:36 run
> -rw-r--r--    1 Gdnslog  Gdnslog         0 Aug 30 03:36 status
> drwx--S---    2 root     root         4096 Aug 31 02:21 supervise
> 
> My password file entries for the tinydns accounts are:
> 
> Gtinydns:x:500:500::/home/Gtinydns:/sbin/nologin
> Gdnslog:x:501:501::/home/Gdnslog:/sbin/nologin
> 
> I created the entries with:
> 
> >useradd Gtinydns
> >useradd Gdnslog
> >usermod -L Gtinydns
> >usermod -L Gdnslog
 
Uh.

Now I'm feeling silly.  But I always assumed that the capital
"G" was an attempt to use some kind of control code or markup
which just failed.

-- 
John White
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