On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm still reading the docs, so hopefully I'm about to find the answer,
> but, when trying to install a src.rpm of the Postfix that came with
> Powertools 6.2, it complained about there not being a postix user nor
> a postfix group.
>
> Apparently it wants a user similar to "nobody" to run as.
yup, and I also found it rather quirky that the source rpm required it.
> I'm not sure how to go about making this user - would anyone who's
> installed such a thing care to explain?
you could install it from a regular rpm and then save the
/etc/passwd,group,shadow files before uninstallig it.
Or, you could create it by hand. I have
/etc/passwd:
postfix:x:89:89::/var/spool/postfix:/bin/true
/etc/group:
postfix:x:89:
/etc/shadow:
postfix:*:10964:0:99999:7:::
on two systesm that I installed postfix on. Now that I think about it
though, I'm not sure why the shell is /bin/true and not
/bin/false. Anyone? I know /bin/false will disallow logins, but I'm not
100% sure about the ramifications for /bin/true. I think the '*' in
/etc/shadow makes this safe though.
> Also I'd like to hear from anyone else who's installed Postfix on RH
> 6.2, if you have any tips.
>
> JW
as someone already mentioned there is a good howto on it. As always,
moongroup.com has a lot of good stuff.
charles
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