On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:04:50PM -0700, Phil Blecker wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:58:15PM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> > alias:x:104:502::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/true
> ^^^^^^^^^
> That is the name of the shell program to run for alias. But, its not a
> shell.
So?
$ grep alias: /var/qmail/doc/INSTALL.ids
alias:*:7790:2108::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/true
> Its a program that returns 0 and then exits. Change it to /bin/sh if
> you really want to do that, or enter "su alias" instead of "su -
> alias".
I do not understand this comment at all. Under RH 5.2, after doing
su - alias
the output of whoami was `alias'. Now it is still root. Why do I
need a valid shell to be able to do this?
> I'm not going to ask why you want to do that, though, because it doesn't
> make sense to me.
We are talking about setting up ezmlm mailinglists under ~alias.
Mate
