From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 18 15:16:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (racine.noos.net [212.198.2.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD63E37B403 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:16:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 7798479 invoked by uid 0); 18 Oct 2001 22:16:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.231.187]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.71 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 18 Oct 2001 22:16:16 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9IMGFU10016; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:16:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200110182216.f9IMGFU10016@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: New sendmail users (was Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned) In-Reply-To: <3BCF1A60.13C78B28@DougBarton.net> To: Doug Barton Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:16:15 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Gregory Neil Shapiro , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net From: Cyrille Lefevre Organization: ACME X-Face: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94c (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > My only objection is the name of the user for uid 25. It should be > smtp, both to match the service name for the port, and to make it more > generic which will help us avoid the inevitable whining and crying from > the anti-sendmail crowd. Port 26 is currently unassigned, so it's as > good a candidate for your mailnull user as any. I think that name is a > little wacky, but since that's the default in sendmail and there's no > contenders for port 26, it's as good as any I suppose. :) do you care about default user names and uids of other platforms such as HP-UX, Solairs, IRIX, AIX, etc. ? as I remember me smtp is already used by Solaris an is 0. this may cause problems in a NIS/NFS environment... Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message