From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 14:27:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA25642 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.iafrica.com (root@chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA25589 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA06566; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 23:26:58 +0200 (SAT) X-Authentication-Warning: chain.iafrica.com: khetan owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 23:26:58 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: "John A. Booth" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: latest popper fails to build. In-Reply-To: <199606102042.PAA00679@ulantris.infinop.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, John A. Booth wrote: >Well this is the first place to see an error and if you read it, it >says that the user pop doesn't exist. So create a pop user with I tried this by giving user pop id nobody. I then created it with standard uid (1008), and it worked fine. >adduser--there may be docs outside of the distribution if so I'd recommend >reading them. I'd personally not give the pop user any access--make it >belong to the nobody group, etc. Done! Thanks for the help. Regards, Khetan Gajjar. --- Visit me at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002