Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:32:55 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <1359099175.2155.42.camel@precise> In-Reply-To: <20130125080311.d794da70.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1358988080.4855.5.camel@precise> <op.wreshnxpqhadp0@freebsd> <5101B141.2090909@gmail.com> <1359076287.2155.18.camel@precise> <20130125080311.d794da70.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 08:03 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > You should have been reading my advice about changing the > UID:GID in detail. :-) I deleted it by accident from the until now _not_ shared mails, IOW I deleted it from the FreeBSD mails only and missed it, when having a brief look at the mailing list archive. > UIDs and GIDs should match here. All files belonging to rocketmouse > should be 1000:1000 _and_ the name "rocketmouse" should be > associated to those numerical values (see files mentioned > above). Yes, but because I missed to update the database X login asked for 1001. > But pwd.db and spwd.db (the password databases with encrypted > content) don't reflect those informations! So '# /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -d/etc /etc/master.passwd' is ok, regarding to ... > "man pwd_mkdb" and rebuild > the databases. -c and -u switches could be used too, but aren't needed, since the entries are correct. > If you would have used the "vipw" command to make the change > to the passwd (plain text) files, it would have called pwd_mkdb > after the change. But don't worry: Knowing those "low level hacks" > can be helpful in some worst-case scenario. :-) And then I don't need to use vi, if the default text editor still should be vi. Thank you! Regards, Ralf
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