Peter Brezny wrote:
> 
> when you
> 
> crontab -e
> 
> to create the job that clears the opensmtp's for roaming users, which user
> should you be under? root?
> 
> or would it be better to give the vpopmail user a temporary shell to set
> this up and then remove it?
> 
> could the vpopmail user account run that job without a shell?
> 
> does it matter?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Peter Brezny
> SysAdmin Services Inc.

I don't think it matters, as long as the user you run it as has
the permissions to update the assicated files. Which are:
open-smtp
open-smtp.lock
ability to write to the ~vpopmail/etc directory
ability to write to the directory where tcp.smtp is

Ken Jones

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