[1621] in NetBSD-Development
Re: important quirks of NetBSD 1.3 Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Mar 18 13:50:33 1998
To: peeto de la noche <gamache@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:39:37 EST."
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:50:14 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 1. first and foremost, postmaster@localhost is redirected to
> postmaster@mit.edu by default. i don't particularly care, but apparently
> Ron Hoffmann <postmaster@mit.edu> does.
As far as I can tell, that's consistent with the behavior of other
Athena platforms. Can anyone else comment? Can you explain the
context of Ron Hoffmann's comment?
> 2. the system is set to be a public workstation by default (in /etc/athena/
> rc.conf). this is probably not the best setting...
We did this for consistency with other Athena platforms. If you
install a Sun, for instance, it comes up as a public machine. Of
course, that's because Cluster Services has a requirement which isn't
true of NetBSD-Athena, but I still like the consistency aspect. After
the next system packs rebuild people should be able to just do "mkserv
remote" to make their machines private.
> 3. the root password is set to 'drroot' by default. there's not problem
> with this, but one must use /os/usr/bin/passwd to change it, as the
> regular 'passwd' doesn't work because it cross-checks against the
> Kerberos passwords, and root doesn't have 'drroot' as its Kerberos
> password.
I think the answer here is to run "passwd -l root". Running
/os/usr/bin/passwd was a hack, and will stop working when we go to
NetBSD 1.3.1 (which should be as soon as they get an i386 for it up on
the NetBSD FTP site).
> 4. another alias trick: /dev/null does not seem valid as an email address.
> does it matter if an illegal destination is specified, if the mail's
> going into the bitbucket anyway?
This is one for Dan to look at. It's sort of ugly if /dev/null is
being treated as an email destination rather than as a filename.
