hidden users?
 

Hi all
It anyway to create a hidden user under RH9?

thkx

What do you mean by hidden?

Hidden from who/what/where exactly?

for Security reson,even u use "finger" or "w" oso can't check the user doing what job.

thkx

You can stop finger requests by creating the file "~/.nofinger" I'm not sure about the rest though.

sorry

touch ~/.nofinger
look like dun work
or can it be modi the hosts.deny?


thkx

problem sovle thkx

The only reasons i can come up with for having a 'hidden' user on the system is that a.) it's not your system or b.) you have users on your system that you don't want to know of other users. This is quite easy to fix, just add the main user you use to the group "wheel" or create another group and add your user to that, then go around and chmod o-rwx on programs like w, last, who. There's other ways of seeing who is on the box via 'ps aux', so you can look at a kernel patch like 'grsec' that allows you to restrict 'ps' abilities. Overall, if you are loking about 'hiding' a user on your own system, tighten security. If you are looking to 'hide' a user on a system that isn't yours, what are you doing there :P

-var

If you solved the problem it is a good idea to post the solution incase it can help someone in the future.