Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:31:45 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why standard user mailnull (26:26) is missing from /usr/ports/UIDs? Message-ID: <7aebe839-44c5-3e6e-08ca-c64f9c358f92@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20161229132135.GA90049@FreeBSD.org> References: <20161229132135.GA90049@FreeBSD.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --ipeCS6edPXNdeAuJCxoH5GG2R9rfRQsTQ Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="RFSwH7iExGhqMPtAHseIgn49uAEWWOhJO"; protected-headers="v1" From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <7aebe839-44c5-3e6e-08ca-c64f9c358f92@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Why standard user mailnull (26:26) is missing from /usr/ports/UIDs? References: <20161229132135.GA90049@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20161229132135.GA90049@FreeBSD.org> --RFSwH7iExGhqMPtAHseIgn49uAEWWOhJO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 29/12/2016 13:21, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > Hence there're two questions: >=20 > 1) $subj > 2) Is it OK to add `mailnull' to /usr/ports/UIDs similar to `smmsp'? O= r, > 3) every port should not abuse default system users and create their ow= n? Given the mailnull user exists as part of the base system (and in DFly too), you don't need to add anything to a generated pkg to create that UID. So you can just set file ownership to mailnull in pkg-plist or run daemons as the mailnull user from your rc script without having to add a USERS or GROUPS line to your port Makefile. However, adding it to your Makefile (and inter-alia to UIDs) should do no harm -- see the setting for USERS_BLACKLIST in bsd.port.mk Existing practise seems pretty inconsistent. The only port that has USERS=3Dsmmsp is mail/sendmail, but several other ports use the smmsp user. Contrarywise none of the dns/bindNNN ports have USERS=3Dbind, but three other ports do: dns/credns, dns/curvedns and dns/maradns none of which have anything to do with bind other than they implement DNS stuff. Cheers, Matthew --RFSwH7iExGhqMPtAHseIgn49uAEWWOhJO-- --ipeCS6edPXNdeAuJCxoH5GG2R9rfRQsTQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJYZSxnXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NTNBNjhCOTEzQTRFNkNGM0UxRTEzMjZC QjIzQUY1MThFMUE0MDEzAAoJELsjr1GOGkATqIwQAK6umKcKOIBv+wh29yNSrpvc LUnnumTltFqK/WIagYzETghdaNfOk6uYqWmlz3NNFjBEPkwbCAOsxnVI/PvBi7Xu fX9hg5HyEFulNFMJcwbtw5YEcMXxGxfGit1VMe6eG4ENqAx0a6aQDm4LG2zHUh3p AGWB7tMVy836uIEsGJOJnxUoScSfrPFdimbZKiYk/Tj4NMXCKFi2i84BVmY0carx AUWEAbzN2Vo4rihUN62LXhUdrGSH6S722chQfQ5jiNPutcz4dpNBEZpcSLcLCLe8 k4tLHtOiKcJpKQ0vnbsnfV47AuhHWfSwuRypFJWZPbx1E0bWmuoX5V53HSCPxY4Q wJH5g5xJoehnjCIVRl+X3zVHbQ+EkHwch2vwBGfBpm1VQjJddUZiiqpOJJnwd5Qo juS2aUBrbGN9eErGwEQOjPmyjHPuFheo9kYQBb9D5HCl7jeqKHA4rqWUZLAJJtgr tClEyWe6zgPF7J5Wo65tyERO922JvUaEy6CJfAKqFlazdVbkAVqEY8Oc+HC+HuFl rTV6B0ZLM37q4rrZ+vgHzYj72B9BeVhqziDwkKojNczfP05FeE6P+tMTmHAlqhQv wY9Abijm8S0bZoXj/T3pzqyLTOXrnVvR97EGPj1fIf708jmRQvpzI06KMDBvET11 9WXxoNdBdRx+usRglbuf =+Z6X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ipeCS6edPXNdeAuJCxoH5GG2R9rfRQsTQ--
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