Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 13:21:35 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Why standard user mailnull (26:26) is missing from /usr/ports/UIDs? Message-ID: <20161229132135.GA90049@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi porters, I was given a port to commit, it's email-related daemon and wants to keep some stuff around (like its state and socket) owned by its user. Submitter originally had chosen `mailnull' as apparently default system e-mail user; it suits the job and looks reasonable enough for generic email processing. However, staging the port fails like this: ===> Generating temporary packing list ===> Creating groups. ===> Creating users ** Cannot find any information about user `mailnull' in /usr/ports/UIDs. *** Error code 1 Changing the user to `smmsp' solves it, but ``Sendmail Submission User'' looks less suitable than ``Sendmail Default User'' for the purpose. Hence there're two questions: 1) $subj 2) Is it OK to add `mailnull' to /usr/ports/UIDs similar to `smmsp'? Or, 3) every port should not abuse default system users and create their own? ./danfe
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