Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:40:52 +1000 From: "Richard Grace" <rgrace@itworks.com.au> To: "Rob Carmichael" <robc@globalvc.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: has someone kidnapped "sys" ? Message-ID: <NDBBILBEBIHJBLOEIKKCAEOFCHAA.rgrace@itworks.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3B666137355DD31199B100E018C15EA20FBE32@mailgate.globalvc.co.uk>
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> I've installed identd, and it gives an example line to run in inetd.conf, > however it suggests it should run as user "sys". The user "sys" does not > exist on my freebsd4 system. The man page for identd says: > > User "sys" should have enough rights to READ the kernal but NOT > write to it. 'sys' is an SVR4 user. Probably 'operator' is your best alternative, as 'operator' has full filesystem read privileges. > Any comments ? Or does anyone know who kidnapped "sys" ? Does his family > miss him ? Was he a nice man ? etc ;-) Depends on what you like I guess... BSD and SVR4 are, well, different. Richard Grace. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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