From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 15:30:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF76015A4B for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA09728 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 08:27:39 +1000 (EST) X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-From: areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-To: X-BPC-Relay-Sender-Host: m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20] X-BPC-Relay-Info: Message delivered directly. Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-49-170.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.49.170]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id IAA13400 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 08:27:38 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 50977 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Sep 1999 22:27:38 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 08:27:38 +1000 To: Pascal Hofstee Cc: Doug , Sheldon Hearn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's Message-ID: <19990902082738.A46667@gurney.reilly.home> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Pascal Hofstee on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:51:10PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:51:10PM +0200, Pascal Hofstee wrote: > 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) Another data point: qmail adds _seven_ new users, and one new group. It has a very paranoid security model. I think that it uses a script to add them, but maybe I did it myself. It was a while ago... -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message