From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 15:17:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt010nb9.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5AE15475 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:17:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt010nb9.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA34063; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:16:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt010nb9.san.rr.com To: Nick Hibma Cc: Pascal Hofstee , 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, Nick Hibma wrote: > > > > > 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) > > Maybe a stupid question, but how do you figure out which uid is still > available, if you don't want every port to include a UID scanning > utility? It's not a stupid question at all. There is already such a utility in the majordomo port, perhaps make this its own port and add that as a dependency? We've already been told that postfix (one of the favorite replacement MTA's for our crowd) uses a different name and group, so this proposed change won't help it at all. My point is simply that fixing this problem is the responsibility of the port maintainers. There is no point in adding something to the base system that will only benefit a few people when a mechanism to solve the problem which does not affect people who don't want the port(s) is already available. Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'" - John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues, "I Don't Know" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message