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Date:      Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:45:27 -0400
From:      "E. J. Cerejo" <ejcerejo@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   make world questions
Message-ID:  <3CB71D37.F5B4B8A4@yahoo.com>

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Hello,

I'm getting ready to do my second make world but reading the UPDATING
file got me a little confused, the files says:

        Due to the import of sendmail 8.12.2 (see 20020325 entry), a new

        user and group are required in order for sendmail to run as a
        set-group-ID binary.  A 'make installworld' will use the new
user
        and group to set the owner and group of /var/spool/clientmqueue
        and will fail if the new user and group do not exist.  The
'smmsp'
        user and group must be merged from src/etc/group and
        src/etc/master.passwd before using 'make installworld'.

I'm not sure what to do of here!
Do I have to create a new user?  If so what should I name the user?
Do I have to create a new group? If so what whould I name the group?
Any special permissions for these two?
What does it mean to merge the 'smmsp' user and group and how is it
done?

Thanks.
E. J. C.


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