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Added user and group nobody for coreutils tests

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2707 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Jeremy Utley 22 years ago
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3 changed files with 13 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 3 0
      chapter01/changelog.xml
  2. 8 2
      chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
  3. 2 2
      index.xml

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chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@
 </itemizedlist>
 </itemizedlist>
 </para></listitem>
 </para></listitem>
 
 
+<listitem><para>August 31, 2003 [jeremy] - Added user nobody to 
+passwd and group files, so coreutils tests will pass.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>August 30, 2003 [jeremy] - Updated fix-includes
 <listitem><para>August 30, 2003 [jeremy] - Updated fix-includes
 patch to GCC 3.3.1</para></listitem>
 patch to GCC 3.3.1</para></listitem>
 
 

+ 8 - 2
chapter06/pwdgroup.xml

@@ -5,12 +5,17 @@
 <para>In order for <emphasis>root</emphasis> to be able to login and for the
 <para>In order for <emphasis>root</emphasis> to be able to login and for the
 name "root" to be recognized, there need to be relevant entries in the
 name "root" to be recognized, there need to be relevant entries in the
 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and
 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and
-<filename>/etc/group</filename> files.</para>
+<filename>/etc/group</filename> files. Also, to support one of the coreutils
+tests, we will also create the user and group nobody, which is almost
+universally present on Linux computers.</para>
 
 
 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file by running the
 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file by running the
 following command:</para>
 following command:</para>
 
 
-<para><screen><userinput>echo "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash" &gt; /etc/passwd</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/passwd &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
+root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
+nobody:x:1000:1000:nobody:/:/bin/bash
+<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para>
 
 
 <para>The actual password for <emphasis>root</emphasis> (the "x" here is
 <para>The actual password for <emphasis>root</emphasis> (the "x" here is
 just a placeholder) will be set later.</para>
 just a placeholder) will be set later.</para>
@@ -31,6 +36,7 @@ disk:x:8:
 lp:x:9:
 lp:x:9:
 dialout:x:10:
 dialout:x:10:
 audio:x:11:
 audio:x:11:
+nobody:x:1000:
 <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para>
 <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para>
 
 
 <para>The created groups aren't part of any standard -- they are the groups
 <para>The created groups aren't part of any standard -- they are the groups

+ 2 - 2
index.xml

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 
 <!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml">
 <!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml">
 
 
-<!ENTITY version "20030830">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "August 30th, 2003">
+<!ENTITY version "20030831">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "August 31th, 2003">
 <!ENTITY nbsp " ">
 <!ENTITY nbsp " ">
 
 
 <!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">
 <!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">