Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:21:12 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Jan-Tiddo <wiedijk@xs4all.nl> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reserved UID's Message-ID: <20030205112112.GB630@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <20030204224502.GD19346@xs4all.nl> References: <20030204224502.GD19346@xs4all.nl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:45:02PM +0100, Jan-Tiddo wrote: > Hai, > > I've noticed that FreeBSD reserves UID's and GID's for specific > applications and service-software. For example the UID for the MySQL > daemon is 88 (if i'm not mistaken:)). > > I am using Postfix as MTA and I;ve tried to find a reserved UID and GID > for the service, but I couldn't find it. My question: did FreeBSD > reserved an UID and GID for the Postfix MTA? If not, maybe you can pick > up this suggestion :) > > Jan-Tiddo > The reserved UIDs are listed in the porters handbook. Postfix doesn't seem to have one. I have postfix running on my local systems and it just seems to grab a normal UID. This is the /etc/passwd entry for postfix one system here: postfix:*:1002:1002:Postfix Mail System:/var/spool/postfix:/sbin/nologin - Christian -- Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+QPOobHYXjKDtmC0RAiArAKC8fXYmdg99Mo8Cste1xSK82Uu+bQCggYXv 0hq3hxwF3yjkr9EkkQ7u0D0= =tc5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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