From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Feb 8 5:22: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F0837B4EC; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 05:21:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from dwcjr (216-118-21-147.pdq.net [216.118.21.147]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19CC177E8B; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 07:21:46 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <002f01c091d2$1529e240$931576d8@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Johann Visagie" , "Neil Blakey-Milner" Cc: "Kris Kennaway" , , References: <20010207014012.B22502@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010207115736.A37769@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <20010208144125.I56586@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Subject: Re: Needed: apache/httpd ports to use 'www' user Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 07:21:44 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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