Standardized the creation of the nobody user (without a valid login shell) in the Postfix and NFS Utilities instructions

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@4547 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

general.ent

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-<!ENTITY day          "03">
+<!ENTITY day          "04">
 <!ENTITY month        "06">
 <!ENTITY year         "2005">
 <!ENTITY version      "svn-&year;&month;&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "June &day;rd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "June &day;th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
 <!ENTITY lfs-version  "development">          <!-- version|stable|testing|unstable|development] -->

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
 
   <itemizedlist>
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>June 4th, 2005 [randy]: Standardized the creation of the nobody
+      user (without a valid login shell) in the NFS Utilities and Postfix
+      instructions.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>June 3rd, 2005 [randy]: Updated Samba configuration information as
       suggested by Alexander Patrakov (fixes bug #1386); Updated to rsync-2.6.5

server/mail/postfix.xml

@@ -170,27 +170,34 @@ AUXLIBS="-L/usr/lib -lpq -lz -lm"</literal></screen>
       <title>Installing Postfix</title>
 
       <para>Before you compile the program, you need to create users and groups
-      that will be expected to be in place when the install script executes.
-      Add the users and groups with the following commands:</para>
+      that will be expected to be in place during the installation.
+      Add the users and groups with the following commands issued by the
+      <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> user:</para>
 
-<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd postfix &amp;&amp;
-groupadd postdrop &amp;&amp;
-groupadd -g 65534 nogroup &amp;&amp;
-useradd -c postfix -d /dev/null -g postfix -s /bin/false postfix &amp;&amp;
-useradd -c nobody -d /home -g nogroup -s /bin/bash -u 65534 nobody &amp;&amp;
-chown postfix:postfix /var/mail</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 32 postfix &amp;&amp;
+groupadd -g 33 postdrop &amp;&amp;
+groupadd -g 99 nogroup &amp;&amp;
+useradd -c "Postfix Daemon User" -d /dev/null -g postfix \
+    -s /bin/false -u 32 postfix &amp;&amp;
+useradd -c "Unprivileged Nobody" -d /dev/null -g nogroup \
+    -s /bin/false -u 99 nobody &amp;&amp;
+chown -v postfix:postfix /var/mail</userinput></screen>
 
       <para>Install <application>Postfix</application> by running the
       following commands:</para>
 
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make &amp;&amp;
-sh postfix-install daemon_directory=/usr/sbin \
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
+
+<screen role='root'><userinput>sh postfix-install daemon_directory=/usr/sbin \
                    manpage_directory=/usr/share/man \
                    sample_directory=/usr/share/doc/postfix \
                    -non-interactive</userinput></screen>
 
       <para>The final installation step is to install the program's documentation
-      with the following commands:</para>
+      with the following commands (again, as the 
+      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user):</para>
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d /usr/share/doc/postfix &amp;&amp;
 cp -v -rf html/* /usr/share/doc/postfix</userinput></screen>

server/major/nfs-utils.xml

@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@
     <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 99 nogroup &amp;&amp;
-useradd -c nobody -d /home -g nogroup -s /bin/bash -u 99 nobody</userinput></screen>
+useradd -c "Unprivileged Nobody" -d /dev/null -g nogroup \
+    -s /bin/false -u 99 nobody</userinput></screen>
 
     <note>
       <para>The classic uid and gid values are 65534 which is also -2 when