Hi Kevin! On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Kevin Miller wrote: > > >I would guess not - although it is possible to hard code user and group > >ID numbers into a process instead of using the name. What user does > >SuSE have using ID 25? I'm at work and all I have is OpenBSD to look > >at, and user 25 is: smmsp, Sendmail Message Submission > >Program. I have Postfix installed, so it must be an OpenBSD default > >account. > > Thanks. > > UID 25 is "at". Odd thing is, sendmail made that change with 8.12, and SuSE > loads 8.12.2, then the patches bring it up to 8.12.3. I'd have expected > them to have altered the UID assignment in the default Linux setup so that > it conformed to the requested specs.. If I set it up to the sendmail specs, > I wonder if I'll get some "unexpected behavior" when I run it? maybe 'at' is a command scheduler, don't know since I've always used cron. If you can always run (just for curosity sake) find -uid 25, should pull up everything on your system (files) which are owned by uid 25. > > >> What stumped me though, > >> is what to do w/the password. Is SOP to leave it blank and > >> assign a nul shell to the account? If not, how does sendmail > >> know how to log in? > >> > > > >Sendmail won't ever actually log in. It will just start and assign > >itself the user and group id of smmsp. IIRC you put an asterisk in > >/etc/passwd, but do not put a password in /etc/shadow (using passwd). > >Don't leave it blank! Again, I only have OpenBSD available here, so I > >can't check. > > Looked in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow - both had a * in the service > accounts. Probably easiest to just edit them by hand as the graphical > utility will start UIDs at 500 & go up from there. Thought about > reassigning "at" to UID 24 and adding smmsp in as 25. My inclination is > that won't work, as the file properties point to the UID if memory serves, > not the name so suddenly all the files "at" used to own would be owned by > smmsp. Probably safer to just pick an unused number. try the useradd command, something such as: groupadd -g 25 smmsp useradd -u 25 -g 25 -s /bin/false -c smmsp it's a lot of times easier then editing the files :) > > >Myron knows more about the password/login stuff. > > As an aside, if anybody is interested, go to > http://www.juneau.lib.ak.us/cbj/jobs/webclass1.asp and click on the "Network > Specialist - Closes 03/12/03" link. Hope it's not stepping on anybody's > toes by posting this... > > ...Kevin > ------------------- > Kevin Miller > CBJ MIS Dept. Network Systems Administrator, Mail > Administrator > 155 South Seward Street ph: (907) 586-0242 > Juneau, Alaska 99801 fax: (907 586-4500 > > ------------------------------------ > This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the > word unsubscribe in the subject header. -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+YnpAnfM/KCuG6/IRAp7JAJ9QkEQVWjQY/i5JFFLrKZrCEPFVdgCgg22y 5A0wzaq+7PiebRBj6S3j0kw= =Ruw1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.