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