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

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You'll probably have to fill all those fields in.

Try

man 5 passwd man 5 group

for some hints.

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