From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 13: 3:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED9915167 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:03:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id NAA15018 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:02:46 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199909012002.NAA15018@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's In-Reply-To: <17825.936203586@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: Sheldon Hearn >Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 18:33:06 +0200 >I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group >``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is >primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports. >... >This has nothing to do with what's in the base system. This has to do >with making it easier for people to run 3rd-party software, which isn't >part of the base system, in a non-priveledged state. I think the overall idea is good, though my tendency has been to use somewhat higher numbers (like 65532 or 65533). And I do it with sendmail. At least in the case of sendmail, the queue directories should be owned by the user in question (especially if they're mode 0700). Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message