From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 5:33:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22A037B55B; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 05:33:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F0B9089; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:32:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA21700; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:33:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:33:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Nobody versus FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20000809125157.B251@parish> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! I have a (postgres) database accessed via apache and perl/CGI. Nobody is my default user. The code that works on Linux (boo hiss) is failing on FBSD in one minor area: mail delivery. The perl scripts generate email for diff purposes, however, whilst running on an FBSD box, Nobody the postman runs into a problem. He is unable to write to /var/spool/mqueue. Permissions are identical linux to bsd: 755 from /var to .../mqueue Ownership is correct (root.daemon for the target dir) although diff from Linux (root.mail). Is any of this pertinent? Also, the entry in /etc/passwd for nobody is similar across systems. He is a member of his own (nonexistent ;-) group. Would adding a group be advisable or is there a less insecure solution? Thanks very much! Tom Good -------------------------------------------------------------------- SVCMC - Center for Behavioral Health -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Good tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org IS Coordinator / DBA Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by: PostgreSQL s l a c k w a r e FreeBSD: RDBMS |---------- linux The Power To Serve -------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message