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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:02:29PM +0100, Dominic Marks wrote:

> > Don't forget to register these in the porter's handbook so there are
> > no uid/gid conflicts with other ports.
>=20
> I'm a little confused. Does this apply for users and groups were the
> actual numbers don't matter ? In Dovecot the extra user is just used
> as a seperate identity to partition login, authentication and active
> users securely. Or do should all users and groups which are going to
> be added by a port by listed in the Porters Handbook. The handbook
> itself seems to suggest the former.

So there is nothing in the port or package that hard-codes the value
of the uid at compile or package-time, for example files owned by the
dovecot user?

If not, it's probably OK.

Kris

P.S. NB, your port does not remove the user/group at deinstall-time.


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