Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 04:35:51 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Admin/Manager <leroy@3dmasters.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password for sendmail setup on smmp Message-ID: <20020328043440.Y2377-100000@hades> In-Reply-To: <000301c1d5ff$adbd84e0$0264a8c0@3dmdomain.local>
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On 2002-03-27 18:24, Admin/Manager wrote: > Hello sendmail has a new setup using a user of smmp and a group. Sendmail > said not to leave the password file blank what should i do in freebsd to > disable this account? Should i make the user and then the account to not > extant ? No need to set a password. Just use "vipw" to set the password to a "*" (without the quotes). This way the superuser can change it's user-ID to smmsp, but nobody can actually login as smmsp. The account is "disabled". - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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