Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:05:28 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> To: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: latest popper fails to build. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960611140340.7069s-100000@chain.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <31BD547C.527@ime.net>
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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
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