From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 15 16:17:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03397 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:17:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03243 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.03 #1) id 0zJ3o6-0002Ba-00; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:42:46 +0100 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:42:46 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Alvin Infante Misalucha , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smail Message-ID: <19980915234246.A1544@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199809151645.AAA19362@mozcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <199809151645.AAA19362@mozcom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alvin Infante Misalucha wrote: > 2) I want to install qmail and document says that new users, like > qmaild and qmailp, have to be added. Is it okay to add new users > manually by editing the /etc/passwd and /etc/master.* files? Yes, but if you manually edit them, remember to use vipw, and don't edit them directly. vipw takes care of keeping /etc/{master.,}passwd in sync and rebuilding the databases from them. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message