So I should modify the FreeBSD /etc/master.passwd and change the encrypted password to '*'? Is this the method in which you describe?
I already ran adduser and created the user and group mailman. I asserted the shell to be /dev/null [excerpt from /etc/passwd] mail_man:*:1000:1000:Tim Legg:/home/mail_man:/bin/csh mailman:*:1003:999:Mailman Daemon:/home/mailman:/dev/null The one on top is the address in which I subscribe to this list with. On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:40:27 -0600 (CST) > Tim Legg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any reason the password must be a "*"? It seams that > > this could be a security risk. Couldn't anybody just login as > > mailman and know that the password is "*" and do all kinds of mean > > things? > > '*', like '!' is a flag value that indicates that the account cannot > be authenticated with a password. > > -- > J C Lawrence > ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? > http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
