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On 12/29/2010 9:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> Greetings, |
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> I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1 |
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> installed, and I have a question about the vacation user entry in |
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> /etc/passwd... |
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> Can I just change it directly (by editing the file with a text editor) |
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> without worrying about anything breaking? |
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> Currently it is: |
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> vacation:x:1003:65501::/home/vacation:/bin/bash |
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> and I want to change it to be the same as the INSTALL.TXT recommends: |
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> vacation:x:65501:65501::0:0:Virtual Vacation:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin |
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> So, can I just edit the file and be done with it? |
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> Also, out of curiosity - can /etc/passwd file contain comments? |
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> Thanks... |
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To your original question, if it works I not would touch it. You may |
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want to look in /home/vacation for .forward or other files that might be |
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helping the vacation functions work if you do decide to change |
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/etc/passwd. IIRC and it's been years vacation was a bit flakey under |
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2.1 and it required a fair amount of undocumented tweaking to work |
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correctly though it did get better in late 2.1.x. |
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I would consider a plan to upgrade to 2.3.2, but it would be far |
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simpler to build a new system and switch over to it than upgrade in |
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place. And safer. |
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kashani |
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