From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 15:31:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10420 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:31:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10326 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA05339; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:30:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: bsd cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to install popper? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, bsd wrote: > Hi all, > I discovered with help a thing called popper & wish to install it. > I have eneabled popper in inetd.conf. > I did a make install from ports but after code compilation it dropped out > with an error stating I needed to create a user "pop" in passwd file > said error(1) > OK So there must be an unwritten "thou shalt create user "pop" rule but > what passwd if any should I use. What should its home dir be, shell > and group ?? It should be a fake user, with a disabled password (*) and a false shell. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major