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Re: SPF - exim4 + debian.org



Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:

> Le sam 24/07/2004 à 16:12, Wouter Verhelst a écrit :
> 
> > > This implies that you're using some external system for your
> > > passwd/group/shadow backends and therefore the behaviour of the local
> > > adduser is not very interesting.
> > 
> > Not necessarily. The Debian system could be a NIS master; and the
> > default setup of the NIS packages in Debian is to use /etc/passwd and
> > friends.
> 
> And you should not export system users and groups with NIS. The default
> setup of the NIS packages is to export only the UID's >=1000.

Which makes it really easy to add all those users to the floppy,
cdrom and sound, groups (on top of my head).

Have you ever used the setup you're advocating?

Phil.



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