Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/07/05 11:33 CST:
[/dev/null]
>
> Sendmail creates a user without specifying -d on useradd resulting
> in defaulting to /home/smmsp as the home dir. The dir doesn't even
> exist using current Sendmail instructions.
>
> Postfix, Exim and Courier create a user that uses /dev/null as the
> home dir with Postfix and NFS-Utils creating a nobody user which
> uses /home (the nobody user doesn't seem right in using /home).
>
> I'm not experienced using /dev/null as a home dir for a non-login
> user, but it seems to be the way the majority of packages do it.
>
> Not to move away from Bruce's suggestion, but can anyone see why
> /dev/null shouldn't be used?
>
I am using /dev/null as home dir for my mail users...
and there is some warnings in my sendmail logs about:
1) world writeable dirrectory /dev/null
2) questions about existances /dev/null/.forward
but it work...
(sory, I cant exactly reproduce the warnings --- I haven't the logs in my
hand at home)
PS: sory for my english...
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Dimitry
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