On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:45:30AM -0600, Tim Legg wrote:
FreeBSD 4.4, Postfix
I am preparing to install mailman-2.0.8 on my system according to my INSTALL document. In step 1, I was told to create user and group mailman by modifying the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
Is it good enough to create these accounts/groups by placing them alone on a single line, or should I fill in the other atributes?
In FreeBSD, /etc/passwd and /etc/group have the fields delimited by colons. I am not entirely clear on what each of these fields represent, but should I know what to enter for the shell path, home dir path, real name, et cetera?
What's wrong with using standard tools like useradd and groupadd? Should be available on FreeBSD too, I guess?
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