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