From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 17:38: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iserver.itworks.com.au (iserver.itworks.com.au [203.32.61.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88B8137BC56 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 17:37:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrace@itworks.com.au) Received: (qmail 74853 invoked from network); 12 May 2000 00:37:55 -0000 Received: from maybe.itworks.com.au (203.36.209.235) by iserver.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 12 May 2000 00:37:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 17909 invoked from network); 12 May 2000 00:37:55 -0000 Received: from dhcp8.itworks.com.au (HELO paranoia) (203.36.209.217) by maybe.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 12 May 2000 00:37:55 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Richard Grace" To: "Rob Carmichael" , Subject: RE: has someone kidnapped "sys" ? Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:40:52 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <3B666137355DD31199B100E018C15EA20FBE32@mailgate.globalvc.co.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've installed identd, and it gives an example line to run in inetd.conf, > however it suggests it should run as user "sys". The user "sys" does not > exist on my freebsd4 system. The man page for identd says: > > User "sys" should have enough rights to READ the kernal but NOT > write to it. 'sys' is an SVR4 user. Probably 'operator' is your best alternative, as 'operator' has full filesystem read privileges. > Any comments ? Or does anyone know who kidnapped "sys" ? Does his family > miss him ? Was he a nice man ? etc ;-) Depends on what you like I guess... BSD and SVR4 are, well, different. Richard Grace. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message