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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:42:39 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: procmail-3.22-7
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Jim,

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:34:41PM +0100, Jim George wrote:
> Obviously there is no directory /home/system, so I created it and set
> the ownerships to SYSTEM.SYSTEM but cd ~SYSTEM (or ~system) still
> doesn't work.  Also cd ~jgeorge does work!

I've patched my fetchmail README with the attached.  The latest
fetchmail README is available at:

    http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/fetchmail/fetchmail-5.9.13.README

Jason

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--- README	2002/08/20 12:56:52	1.9
+++ README	2002/08/28 11:37:33
@@ -98,6 +98,18 @@
     $passwordN is a mailserver password
     $userN is a local user name
 
+Note that the system home directory, ~system, will only be usable if:
+
+    o the /etc/passwd system entry has been edited to be the following:
+
+      SYSTEM:*:18:18:Local System,U-$COMPUTERNAME\LocalSystem,S-1-5-18:/home/system:/bin/bash
+
+    o the /home/system directory has been created
+
+where:
+
+    $COMPUTERNAME is the local computer name
+
 Under Windows NT/2000/XP, use the following to install Cygwin fetchmail
 as a NT service:
 


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