Re: [Cuadrantes-espiral] Fwd: chinatown is sorted

[Saul Albert]

Hi Javier,

I'm afraid I'm not sure what you're on about.

I have no idea how to work with Berkley DB 1.85. and I don't know where the
passwords are either. Sorry if my cluelessness disappoints you, but I'm only
a BSD learner.

I'd be very unhappy if anyone else had ssh access to lime, so redirecting
the port is a good idea. However, I'm not sure how to do that yet, and I'm
really busy right now. If you want to do it, that would be fine. Root on
lime is the same as root on Chinatown (you got that sms right?)

So, although our security is dodgy, I'd really appreciate it if you're
careful who gets passwords! There's some useful stuff on chinatown already,
and there will be loads more soon. Also, there are about 50 people who
depend on lime as a router, and when it breaks, (very unusual) I get loads
of calls.

Sorry I can't help with the port redirection thing, but I really don't have
any time for that right now.

Cheers,

Saul.
----- Original Message -----
From: Javier Linares <address@hidden>
To: Saul Albert <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; Quim Gil <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Cuadrantes-espiral] Fwd: chinatown is sorted


I'd like to edit the crypted version of a user password @ chinatown,
because I need to create some users and they've sent me he password
already crypted (you know, the crypt function in perl...).

But the password is not in "/etc/passwd" and I cannot find the file
"/etc/shadow". I only see a very cool file called "/etc/pwd.db" and
"/etc/spwd.db"... What could i do? May I edit this file? Do you have
some tool to work with Berkeley DB 1.85? Where are the crypted
passwords?

Once those users are created... do they still need to enter trough
lime.limehouse.consume.net? Do they need a special account o they could
user mine (javier)? If we are going to use this account for more than
one user, we should change the shell (/bin/sh) for some small shell to
only allow people to do ssh to chinatown. Is that possible? Could you
redirect a port of lime's IP to chinatown? (I think you were already
working on it, don't you?).

Yes, I had never worked with a BSD before :-). But now I realize that
BSD in Spanish is "Buscando a Shadow Desesperadamente" (in english,
looking for Shadow :-)).

Thanks.

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