Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 07:21:44 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "Johann Visagie" <johann@egenetics.com>, "Neil Blakey-Milner" <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, <ports@FreeBSD.org>, <sheldonh@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Needed: apache/httpd ports to use 'www' user Message-ID: <002f01c091d2$1529e240$931576d8@inethouston.net> References: <20010207014012.B22502@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010207115736.A37769@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <20010208144125.I56586@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
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Postfix-current has run as the user postfix/group postfix for a long time. > Moving off at a slight tangent... what about alternative MTAs (where > "alterntive" means "non-sendmail")? > > The only alternative MTA I use fairly often is Exim, and I recently noted > that the FreeBSD port of Exim is still installed to run as root. There are > certainly some security advantages to be gained from running it as a > non-privileged user (though this could imply fiddling with the permissions of > various spool directories). > > Does this apply to other alternative MTAs as well? If so, should there be > one "mail" user for all of them, or should they each create their own sanbox > user? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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