SCO OpenServer & filePro permissions

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

  So does it matter what I set filepro's password to? I never knew it got
installed with a password, much less a password
  that expires?? Strange......
  That leads me to the other part of my problems/issues/questions.
  I'm assuming them I can use the filepro user to ftp to our client's site
and 'get' files, thus these files would have
  filepro ownership already, right?
  I guess I can also do some 'system' calls to chmod etc right from
processing.
  I will work on some ideas on this tomorrow

  But I would like to know if:
  a) this is standard behaviour for filepro (an expiring password)
  b) does it matter what I set filepro's password to?
  c) will it break anything when I change it?

  Thanks

  Scott



On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:

> Is it just me, or did scooter6 at gmail.com say:
> > Also, I noticed a user named filepro gets created upon install of fp --
> > just testing some things, from root, I type su filepro <enter> and I get
> > "Password has expired. Setting a new password cannot be done from here."
> > Should filepro have a password? should it expire?  I've never come across
> > that before.
>
> The filepro user should -definitely- either have a password, or have an x
> or * in the encrypted password field in /etc/shadow.  DO NOT leave the
> password unset.
>
> I wouldn't make the password expire for that account, but I can't remember
> if that is tunable per user, or if it's a system-wide setting.  I thought
> it's system-wide, in which case it's all users or none that expire
> passwords.  (I've used expirations twice in 20yrs, upon client request,
> which is why my memory on this is sketchy.)
>
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