From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 23 17: 0:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786C737B400 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0O103a88522; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:00:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201240100.g0O103a88522@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: ports/33929: Section 15.15 of the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook needs to be updated. Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/33929; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Yarema Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, dwhite@freebsd.org, lioux@freebsd.org, dinoex@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/33929: Section 15.15 of the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook needs to be updated. Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 02:47:55 +0200 Adding to audit-trail: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:52:57 +0100 From: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) Subject: Re: Section 15.15 of the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook needs to be updated. > to bring them all in sync. Changes include adding user 'bind' UID 53 to > the top of the list, adding user 'courier' and sorting the list by UID so > that future UID duplication is easier to avoid. User 'bind' UID 53 already > exists in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd and this section documents UIDs 50 > through 999. So user 'bind' clearly needs to be documented here. > > Of interest to the mail/sendmail port is that I removed: > > smmsp:*:90:90:Sendmail Queue:/nonexistent:/nonexistent > > since user 'smmsp' already exists as UID 25 in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd -- > patching the mail/sendmail port to use UID 25 instad of 90 makes more sense > (to me at least). 1) The sendmail port uses an already existiting UID/GID and does not remove it. 2) It may violate POLA to make the sendmail port create this UID/GID on older FreeBSD-Systems with 25 instead of 90. kind regards Dirk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message