On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:38:12 -0500, Daniel Jakots <danj+o...@chown.me>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When following the example from the OpenSMTPD faq [0], first thing is
> to create a new user with:
>
> useradd -g =uid -c "Virtual Mail" -d /var/vmail -s /sbin/nologin vmail
>
> which raises
> warnx("Warning: home directory `%s' doesn't exist, and -m was"
> " not specified", home);
>
> I don't think giving a command that produces a warning is a good thing
> in an official documentation. Also solving this problem make other
> commands useless so it's a bit shorter.
>
> [0]: https://opensmtpd.org/faq/example1.html
While checking that my diff wasn't mangled, I noticed that it doesn't
follow html syntax from OpenBSD faq, so let's be consistent:
Index: opensmtpd/faq/example1.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/www/opensmtpd/faq/example1.html,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -p -r1.12 example1.html
--- opensmtpd/faq/example1.html 31 Oct 2016 20:52:22 -0000 1.12
+++ opensmtpd/faq/example1.html 30 Jan 2017 23:58:39 -0000
@@ -90,9 +90,7 @@ virtual users.
This user needs to be created:
<blockquote><pre>
-<strong># useradd -g =uid -c "Virtual Mail" -d /var/vmail -s /sbin/nologin
vmail</strong>
-<strong># mkdir /var/vmail</strong>
-<strong># chown vmail:vmail /var/vmail</strong>
+# <b>useradd -m -g =uid -c "Virtual Mail" -d /var/vmail -s /sbin/nologin
vmail</b>
</pre></blockquote>
Afterwards, the <tt>/etc/passwd</tt> file will contain an entry like
@@ -199,9 +197,9 @@ maildir folder are mapped to the single
In this example, Dovecot is used as an IMAP server.
<blockquote><pre>
-<strong># export
PKG_PATH=http://your.local.mirror/pub/OpenBSD/%c/packages/%a</strong>
-<strong># pkg_add dovecot</strong>
-<strong># rcctl enable dovecot</strong>
+# <b>export PKG_PATH=http://your.local.mirror/pub/OpenBSD/%c/packages/%a</b>
+# <b>pkg_add dovecot</b>
+# <b>rcctl enable dovecot</b>
</pre></blockquote>
Virtual users access and read their mails via IMAP.
