On Saturday 15 March 2008 17:59:00 Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 16:47 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 15 March 2008 16:20, Craig White wrote: > > > /usr/share is a really bad idea... > > > - selinux > > > - goes against intended purpose > > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE26 > > > - just a plain bad idea. > > > > > > home directories should be in /home with the sole exception of daemon > > > users (uid < 500) which will typically be created in /var or /var/lib > > > > Fair enough. I'll delete that user and start again. About UIDs, though. > > The user 'groupware' is not a user in the normal sense of the word. It > > is a part of dimap functionality, in my case handled by dovecot. There > > will never be a login, unless I have to do it as part of the setup, then > > switch off logins. Is it best to allocate a UID above or below 500? > > > > This may be obvious to you, but its a new ballgame to me :-) > > ---- > FWIW... > > On most networks I create a user 'administrator', a normal (500+ uid) > account with login privileges and an $HOME directory somewhere in /home > (I normally put user accounts in /home/users). > > I use this user 'administrator' for a lot of purposes including... > - Windows Domain Administrator > - 'the From' email address (adminstrator@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) for > notifications > - 'admin' user for Horde (IMP/et. al.) > - owner of Windows related files that are somewhat restricted such as > 'netlogon' share > - owner of most shares (NFS/Samba/Netatalk) > - member of 'Dom Users' group (again a Windows thing) > > This may or may not be useful to you. I think that the users you create > should be uid > 500 UNLESS their only purpose is to run daemons. > OK, thanks. I'll leave it for tonight, then get a clean start tomorrow. Anne
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