Author: bdubbs
Date: 2006-09-10 17:08:44 -0600 (Sun, 10 Sep 2006)
New Revision: 6297
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/basicnet/netprogs/portmap.xml
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
Log:
Add creation of bin user to portmap
Modified: trunk/BOOK/basicnet/netprogs/portmap.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/basicnet/netprogs/portmap.xml 2006-09-10 19:32:34 UTC (rev
6296)
+++ trunk/BOOK/basicnet/netprogs/portmap.xml 2006-09-10 23:08:44 UTC (rev
6297)
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Portmap</title>
+ <para>Portmap runs as a daemon with a uid of 1. This uid is not
+ configurable. To set up a user to match this uid, as the
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, run:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>useradd -u 1 -g 1 -d /dev/null -s /bin/false
bin</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Install <application>portmap</application> with the following
commands:</para>
@@ -107,8 +113,8 @@
<note>
<para>The above installation places executable <command>portmap</command>
in <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename>. You may choose to move
the
- file to <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename>. If you do,
remember to
- modify the bootscript also.</para>
+ file to <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename>. If you do,
+ remember to modify the bootscript also.</para>
</note>
</sect2>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2006-09-10 19:32:34 UTC
(rev 6296)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2006-09-10 23:08:44 UTC
(rev 6297)
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
<para>September 10th, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Added creation of bin user to portmap.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[bdubbs] - Updated to pcre-6.7.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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