[K12OSN] RE: tftp problem no user nobody?

[Alan McColl]

All,
  I figured out my problem. Apparently, the /etc/shadow entry for user "nobody" had been corrupted by the "Webmin" app. The entry looked significantly different from other daemon-user entries like "adm". (I am at work and don't have the exact details of the file in front of me, sorry) I just edited the " nobody" line to look exacly like all the other daemon-users, and voila!
  I also stumled on an article that shows how to recover from an accidentally deleted /etc/shadow file here.
  Al McColl
   
  All,
My terminals will not boot after a recent episode of adding / editing users and resetting 
passwords using the Webmin (v1.29) administration web application.
The terminals get as far as receiving an IP address, then no tftp download. I had a 
look at /var/log/messages and it looks like there is no user named "nobody". There are entries for "nobody" in both the 
/etc/password and /etc/shadow files. User "nobody" can be seen in both the Redhat "users / groups" application and Webmin.
Here is a tail of /var/log/messages
Thank you for any help,
Al 
Midwestern Christian Academy
[snip]
Sep 19 10:24:41 ws247.ltsp -- MARK --
Sep 19 10:24:44 bigboy in.tftpd[25831]: no user nobody: Permission denied
Sep 19 10:25:24 bigboy in.tftpd[25871]: no user nobody: Permission denied
Sep 19 10:26:20 bigboy dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:b0:d0:b1:76:29 via eth0
Sep 19 10:26:21 bigboy dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.221 to 00:b0:d0:b1:76:29 via eth0
Sep 19 10:26:21 bigboy dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.221 (192.168.0.254) from 00:b0:d0:b1:76:29 via eth0
Sep 19 10:26:21 bigboy dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.221 to 00:b0:d0:b1:76:29 via eth0
Sep 19 10:26:21 bigboy in.tftpd[25880]: no user nobody: Permission denied


 		
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