[Pkg-exim4-users] Install error: user mail was not found

Marc Haber mh+pkg-exim4-users at zugschlus.de
Sat Feb 25 22:14:40 UTC 2006


On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:49:14PM +0000, Mark wrote:
> I found the problem. If anyone else finds this useful, I had /etc/passwd perms 
> set too tight for some reason. Now set to 644.

That solution is very useful, thanks for clearing this up for the
archive. I apologize for not handling the issue in a more timely
fashion.

For the other readers: strace is a great tool to find out issues like
that, it would have cleanly shown the failed attempt to
access /etc/passwd.

Greetings
Marc

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