* Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010218 00:57]:
> Is this the right forum for this?
> I installed the vpopmail rpm.

Probably not. Try <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

> After that I ran, as root,
> 
> useradd a.b.c

``Create a system user a.b.c.''

> vadddomain a.b.c

This is vpopmail's program to ``create a mail domain a.b.c.''

> Interestingly, I got this 
> 
> +a.b.c-:a.b.c:521:521:/home/vpopmail/domains/a.b.c:-::
> 
> users/assign.  But
> 
> # id -u a.b.c
> 511
> 
> What gives?  (This is to investigate some ezmlm user's problem which I
> suspect has to do with perms on a list set up under vpopmail)?

vpopmail, by default, manages all mail domains under the vpopmail user and
ignored /etc/passwd if a system user exists with the same name as the mail
domain. 10-to-1 says `id -u vpopmail` returns 521.

/pg
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