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On 14/11/00 at 8:38 Charles Galpin wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I'm still reading the docs, so hopefully I'm about to find the answer,
>> but, when trying to install a src.rpm of the Postfix that came with
>> Powertools 6.2, it complained about there not being a postix user nor
>> a postfix group.
>>
>> Apparently it wants a user similar to "nobody" to run as.
>
>yup, and I also found it rather quirky that the source rpm required it.
Um, worrying......
>
>> I'm not sure how to go about making this user - would anyone who's
>> installed such a thing care to explain?
>
>you could install it from a regular rpm and then save the
>/etc/passwd,group,shadow files before uninstallig it.
>
>Or, you could create it by hand. I have
>
>/etc/passwd:
>postfix:x:89:89::/var/spool/postfix:/bin/true
>
>/etc/group:
>postfix:x:89:
>
>/etc/shadow:
>postfix:*:10964:0:99999:7:::
I cannot see a valid reason for the RPM to not create the user at install
time.
>
>on two systesm that I installed postfix on. Now that I think about it
>though, I'm not sure why the shell is /bin/true and not
>/bin/false. Anyone? I know /bin/false will disallow logins, but I'm not
>100% sure about the ramifications for /bin/true. I think the '*' in
>/etc/shadow makes this safe though.
/bin/false is the idea, it should NOT run with a shell, thats the idea...
>
>> Also I'd like to hear from anyone else who's installed Postfix on RH
>> 6.2, if you have any tips.
>>
>> JW
>
>as someone already mentioned there is a good howto on it. As always,
>moongroup.com has a lot of good stuff.
>
Yeah moongroup.com , look for old Site, then mailhelp
Regards
Greg Wright
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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