>In an echomail message Pablo once wrote:
>
>> You also need to create the fnet user (the easier will be to add
>>this line to your /etc/passwd file :
>
>> fnet:*:2200:14:fnet:/usr/lib/ifmail:
>
>Is this correct manner in which to set up this user? Should there be
>a shell defined per Marco's post? Should there be a password defined?
Correct as a "term" is undefinable when your dealing with a unix system,
I think it's what works best for your system. You should evaluate the
needs
of your own system and use Pablo's suggestion as an example not a rule.
You could be openning a possible security hole if you included a shell, a
user
could arbitrarily gain access as fnet and run ifpoll to call a node in South Africa,
now you would want that to happen, but if you didn't have any users then
what's wrong with having a shell and logging in as user fnet occasionally
to run ifpoll or for that matter any of ifmail's executables.
For the most part systems running 24/7 on the net would probably not want
a
shell, where as a store and forward system with trusted users could have
a
shell. I'm sure there are as many possibilities and other examples one could
come up with that would satisfy either case.
So, I guess the best thing to do is what works best for your own system.
-Greg-