From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 05:07:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA02478 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.iafrica.com (root@chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA02423 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 05:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA09280; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:05:28 +0200 (SAT) X-Authentication-Warning: chain.iafrica.com: khetan owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:05:28 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: Gary Chrysler cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: latest popper fails to build. In-Reply-To: <31BD547C.527@ime.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: >This is only a guess, I really don't know! Neither do I. Any suggestions appreciated. >But it seems that you need to add a user named ``pop`` to your >system for popper to run as.. I did create a user pop, with group number set to noone, and groupid set to nogroup. However that didn't work. I then did a adduser and set it's shell to nonexistant. It installed after that. Why does it require a user though ? The previous version didn't, and as far as I am concerned, it's a security hole/violation to have a user you don't (really) need. >At least thats what I would try with that error! it is pretty logical. >But I would also think that it would/could add it's own. Or say "please create a user with group id so and so" or something to that effect. Regards, Khetan Gajjar. --- Visit me at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002