beno wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: >> Note: this is potentially a problem. If the UID number gets reused for a >> different account, that new user will get all the ownership rights to the >> old users' files. It can often be a better policy to disable an old >> account >> -- set the password field in /etc/master.passwd to '!!' and change the >> shell >> to /sbin/nologin -- rather than to delete it. >>
> Before I go trotting off and do this and potentially replace the wrong
> field, which one is the passwd?
> tick:$1$CDKLp9qt$sfo5Mi5/dB1uGZUuc5uKk0:1001:1001::0:0:User
> &:/home/tick:/sbin/nologin
The second field -- see passwd(5) (by which I mean type 'man 5 passwd', if
it isn't obvious)
>> You can also get a report on any 'unowned' files in the weekly periodic
>> e-mail by adding
>>
>> weekly_noid_enable="YES"
>>
>> to /etc/periodic.conf
>>
> Where does it find the email address?
The periodic emails are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are at least two
every day, plus an extra at the end of each week and at the end of each
month -- you're expected to set up an alias that forwards them to the
sysadmins for the machine.
Check /etc/mail/aliases, you should have a line that says something like:
root: youruid
in there towards the top. Edit the file appropriately and then type
'make' in the /etc/mail directory. If you haven't done that and you've been
running a FreeBSD box for a while, you'll find that root's mailbox --
/var/mail/root -- is probably rather full.
Cheers,
Matthew
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