From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661D71381F3 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F108E0B81; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f44.google.com (mail-pa0-f44.google.com [209.85.220.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D185FE0B44 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f44.google.com with SMTP id fb1so5497956pad.3 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:26:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8d88rlY32cETQJfv+komspJ2N4TpmpM921BxxwzMv1s=; b=gpEyjqfYcNeUegQ+iZ0B8KFGOi4NY04Zgo9e0YroUqbfI6LNDmDPNsAj8UI4dSYmks /+HexnI1jFCagAJ1qX2GjCmCamZzkn1djfeHB2WM9btKqjkrU1jrDKHBi5KhjArLsVW4 8hSllUqSx7sY3Dur7pZhJiNZTMBZ0qrDeCc84dG3mKPEvG2j3TRtDglVAYwykVviDd1q +59zkmneL0PKH+RsGECoqas2a58rV4Adz+xJNngBWTDW2EG94p0c6A4p49w2tMqJMm04 c7R/Y0ieW/cAt3fYTbsBq2Saj+tKi4s16WZADfzhsg+eAwtnczNVoej7QNntxhtS5PCC 88QA== X-Received: by 10.66.66.11 with SMTP id b11mr4139638pat.154.1382383582793; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:26:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.247.60] (76-10-185-47.dsl.teksavvy.com. [76.10.185.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fk4sm27674035pab.23.2013.10.21.12.26.21 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52657FDC.6020501@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:26:20 -0700 From: Daniel Frey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131013 Thunderbird/17.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/passwd entry query References: <3948ccc0-5711-4df1-bc9a-488041449556@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: <3948ccc0-5711-4df1-bc9a-488041449556@email.android.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d985531f-adf8-4743-8260-3594990ba36b X-Archives-Hash: 9bb38c2e10952c0f740d520c7cbc4a51 On 10/21/2013 04:39 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Adam Carter 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. > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. I've seen comments like this when portage makes changes, specifically in /etc/portage/package.* - usually when package atoms change. Don't know why it would do that with /etc/passwd though. Maybe it's an ebuild bug? Dan