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?
TIA
Tim Legg
Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
You'll probably have to fill all those fields in.
Try
man 5 passwd man 5 group
for some hints.