From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 5 3:21:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789A637B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 03:21:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from milan.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (milan.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9DA843FA7 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 03:21:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) by milan.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36652A91E; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:21:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E721144E6; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:21:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:21:12 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer To: Jan-Tiddo Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reserved UID's Message-ID: <20030205112112.GB630@unixpages.org> References: <20030204224502.GD19346@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030204224502.GD19346@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:45:02PM +0100, Jan-Tiddo wrote: > Hai, >=20 > 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:)). >=20 > 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 :) >=20 > Jan-Tiddo >=20 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 --=20 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 --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+QPOobHYXjKDtmC0RAiArAKC8fXYmdg99Mo8Cste1xSK82Uu+bQCggYXv 0hq3hxwF3yjkr9EkkQ7u0D0= =tc5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message