Alex Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Assuming you have created an alias user (and all the other required
> qmail users)

> su alias
> cd alias
> touch .qmail-postmaster
> touch .qmail-mailer-daemon
> touch .qmail-root

It works just fine to have root own the files in ~alias.

> Ironically, I have installed using the RPM and I cannot perform the
> command su alias because the alias user has no shell specified, I don't
> know why it was set that way.

Because alias is a special user and probably shouldn't own any files or
have a valid shell.  There's no reason for it to.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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