Changeset 0dfb754

Timestamp:

06/04/2005 08:05:01 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Randy McMurchy <randy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

1881a5b

Parents:

9274bc5

Message:

Standardized the creation of the nobody user (without a valid login shell) in the Postfix and NFS Utilities instructions

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@4547 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (1 diff)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• server/mail/postfix.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• server/major/nfs-utils.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general.ent

@@ -1 @@
-<!ENTITY day          "03">
+<!ENTITY day          "04">
 <!ENTITY month        "06">
 <!ENTITY year         "2005">
 <!ENTITY version      "svn-&year;&month;&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "June &day;rd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "June &day;th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
 
   <itemizedlist>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>June 4th, 2005 [randy]: Standardized the creation of the nobody
+      user (without a valid login shell) in the NFS Utilities and Postfix
+      instructions.</para>
+    </listitem>
 
     <listitem>

server/mail/postfix.xml

@@ -171 +171 @@
 
       <para>Before you compile the program, you need to create users and groups
-      that will be expected to be in place when the install script executes.
-      Add the users and groups with the following commands:</para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd postfix &amp;&amp;
-groupadd postdrop &amp;&amp;
-groupadd -g 65534 nogroup &amp;&amp;
-useradd -c postfix -d /dev/null -g postfix -s /bin/false postfix &amp;&amp;
-useradd -c nobody -d /home -g nogroup -s /bin/bash -u 65534 nobody &amp;&amp;
-chown postfix:postfix /var/mail</userinput></screen>
+      that will be expected to be in place during the installation.
+      Add the users and groups with the following commands issued by the
+      <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> user:</para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 32 postfix &amp;&amp;
+groupadd -g 33 postdrop &amp;&amp;
+groupadd -g 99 nogroup &amp;&amp;
+useradd -c "Postfix Daemon User" -d /dev/null -g postfix \
+    -s /bin/false -u 32 postfix &amp;&amp;
+useradd -c "Unprivileged Nobody" -d /dev/null -g nogroup \
+    -s /bin/false -u 99 nobody &amp;&amp;
+chown -v postfix:postfix /var/mail</userinput></screen>
 
       <para>Install <application>Postfix</application> by running the
       following commands:</para>
 
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make &amp;&amp;
-sh postfix-install daemon_directory=/usr/sbin \
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
+
+<screen role='root'><userinput>sh postfix-install daemon_directory=/usr/sbin \
                    manpage_directory=/usr/share/man \
                    sample_directory=/usr/share/doc/postfix \
@@ -191 +197 @@
 
       <para>The final installation step is to install the program's documentation
-      with the following commands:</para>
+      with the following commands (again, as the 
+      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user):</para>
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d /usr/share/doc/postfix &amp;&amp;

server/major/nfs-utils.xml

@@ -101 +101 @@
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 99 nogroup &amp;&amp;
-useradd -c nobody -d /home -g nogroup -s /bin/bash -u 99 nobody</userinput></screen>
+useradd -c "Unprivileged Nobody" -d /dev/null -g nogroup \
+    -s /bin/false -u 99 nobody</userinput></screen>
 
     <note>