Re: Post.Office mta user home directory?

[eyang@xxxxxxxxx (Eric Yang)]

Dan,

You can try this:

sudo niutil -destroyprop . /users/mta dir
sudo niutil -createprop . /users/mta dir /path/to/home/dir

regards,
Eric

> 
> From: "Dan Tappin" <dan.tappin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2003/12/11 Thu PM 11:57:02 PST
> To: <post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Post.Office mta user home directory?
> 
> Are there any *nix geeks or Tenon support people out there that can help me 
> with the creation of a home directory and shell for the
> mta user that Post.Office runs under?
> 
> I am running SpamAssassin (SA) and I am configuring if manually.  I am trying 
> to set-up the bayes learning feature of SA.  I am
> running SA as the mta user (non-root) as recommended on this list.  The 
> problem is that SA tries to save the various bayes related
> files in various locations on the system (/var/root/ for example).  Obviously 
> the mta user does not have permissions to read or
> write to the /var/root/ directory.
> 
> I am guessing it is trying to do this because the mta user was created by 
> Apple by default or by Tenon during the install process
> and a home directory or shell was not needed and therefore not created for 
> security reasons (the idea of least privilege).
> 
> Are there any reasons whey I should not do this?  I think I could figure this 
> out via NetInfo but I would sure like to have another
> tool in my expanding CLI toolbox.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 
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