From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 18:36: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCEC37B404 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:36:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a188.otenet.gr [212.205.215.188]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2S2ZsvD001607; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 04:35:56 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2S2ZrcF002391; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 04:35:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2S2Zqjf002390; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 04:35:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 04:35:51 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas X-X-Sender: charon@hades To: Admin/Manager Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password for sendmail setup on smmp In-Reply-To: <000301c1d5ff$adbd84e0$0264a8c0@3dmdomain.local> Message-ID: <20020328043440.Y2377-100000@hades> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-03-27 18:24, Admin/Manager wrote: > Hello sendmail has a new setup using a user of smmp and a group. Sendmail > said not to leave the password file blank what should i do in freebsd to > disable this account? Should i make the user and then the account to not > extant ? No need to set a password. Just use "vipw" to set the password to a "*" (without the quotes). This way the superuser can change it's user-ID to smmsp, but nobody can actually login as smmsp. The account is "disabled". - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message