From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/passwd entry query
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:39:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3948ccc0-5711-4df1-bc9a-488041449556@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=wYCEopG=xTy2SMZtJPYsRsUkkx7a1W9U7QMnrB4ntXReXYA@mail.gmail.com>
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Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com> wrote:
>I probably haven't looked at this file for years, but it contains
>
>named:x:40:40:added by portage for bind:/etc/bind:/sbin/nologin
>#named:x:40:40:added by portage for bind:/etc/bind:/bin/bash
>
>#postfix:x:207:207:added by portage for
>postfix:/var/spool/postfix:/sbin/nologin
>postfix:x:207:207:added by portage for
>postfix:/var/spool/postfix:/bin/bash
>
>I've now changed postfix to nologin, and since then it has restarted
>cleanly and accpted new mail.
>
>Does anyone have similar in their passwd or is this weird?
I have never seen comments in my /etc/passwd file.
That would really cause some alarmbells to ring in my head.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-21 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-21 11:35 [gentoo-user] /etc/passwd entry query Adam Carter
2013-10-21 11:39 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2013-10-21 19:26 ` Daniel Frey
2013-10-22 5:19 ` Mick
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