From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 13:51:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from shadowmere.student.utwente.nl (wit401305.student.utwente.nl [130.89.236.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B0515617 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:51:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daeron@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl) Received: by shadowmere.student.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BAC4AFD; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:51:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shadowmere.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9164DF3; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:51:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:51:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Pascal Hofstee To: Doug Cc: Sheldon Hearn , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Doug wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > 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. > > Why not do this as part of the port itself, ala majordomo? That > works just fine and is completely non-controversial because you don't get > it unless you ask for it. I would just liek to point out that Postfix is also doing the exact same thing ... user postfix ... (as well as a group maildrop) -------------------- Pascal Hofstee - daeron@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s+: a-- C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W- N+ o? K- w--- O? M V? PS+ PE Y-- PGP-- t+ 5 X-- R tv+ b+ DI D- G e* h+ r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message