Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:37:57 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org, fenner@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: ifmail UID Message-ID: <199711192337.PAA00930@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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Hi, I noticed that ifmail creates an account using pw. That is great, but it is taking the first UID after the largest one in the local /etc/passwd. That can cause problems if people are using YP. It is recommended that ports use UIDs in the range 50-99. This is the list of currently used UIDs in that range (taken from the handbook's "porting" section). majordom:*:54:1024:Majordomo Pseudo User:/usr/local/majordomo:/nonexistent cyrus:*:60:248:the cyrus mail server:/nonexistent:/nonexistent uucp:*:66:66:UUCP pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/libexec/uucp/uucico xten:*:67:67:X-10 daemon:/usr/local/xten:/nonexistent pop:*:68:6:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/nonexistent wnn:*:69:7:Wnn:/nonexistent:/nonexistent pgsql:*:71:246:PostgreSQL pseudo-user:/usr/local/pgsql:/bin/sh msql:*:80:249:mSQL-2 pseudo-user:/var/db/msqldb:/bin/sh Please make the port try to use one of the unused ones here (say, 70) if it is available. Also, the port does not delete the UID when it is de-installed. It's ok if that is intentional; if it was an oversight, please fix that too. Thanks Satoshi
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