From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 23 9:33:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (horsey.gshapiro.net [209.220.147.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124CB37B417; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:33:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (gshapiro@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g0NHXWUa071173 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:33:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gshapiro@localhost) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g0NHXWjN071170; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:33:32 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15438.62444.300546.808256@horsey.gshapiro.net> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:33:32 -0800 From: Gregory Neil Shapiro To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: netch@lucky.net, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, anders@fix.no, imp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New sendmail users (was Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned) In-Reply-To: <200201231731.g0NHVO085022@bmah.dyndns.org> References: <29611.1003411145@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <15311.1383.814782.672622@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20020123131816.GA43706@lucky.net> <15438.60023.705225.44960@horsey.gshapiro.net> <200201231731.g0NHVO085022@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG bmah> Errr. This sounds like a relnotes thing too...guess I ought to bmah> think (quickly) about this. bmah> Just so I have this straight, this problem came about because of the bmah> change to master.passwd, not because of any code change in sendmail bmah> (which, if I read my relnotes right, hasn't changed between 4.4-RELEASE bmah> and 4.5-RC). Right? Correct. sendmail uses mailnull if the account exists so when the account was created, it started using it. >> If you still want sendmail to use daemon for the default user, simply add >> this to your .mc file: >> >> define(`confDEF_USER_ID', `daemon') >> >> However, migrating to mailnull will increase system security. bmah> Is this because there are fewer processes running as daemon? No, it is because other processes run as daemon. The sendmail DefaultUser should not be used by anything else. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message