From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 18: 6:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D0815479; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:06:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp18342.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.22]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA24997; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:05:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA18387; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:48:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:48:59 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Ollivier Robert , sheldonh@FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's Message-ID: <19990901204859.B14974@mad> Reply-To: hoek@FreeBSD.org References: <17825.936203586@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19990902003928.A33233@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990902003928.A33233@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 12:39:28AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 12:39:28AM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Sheldon Hearn: > > 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. Will ports adapt easily to this? Having ports add their own users and groups is fairly trivial. Using a single user:group could make some of the ports less standard (eg. most of the world does not run qmail under user ``smtp'' or group ``mail''). OTOH, I can see that having a common user:group would be useful and make some things easier, too. [I'm not saying I'm opposed; I'm asking if it really makes sense for the ports to use a single mta user:group ... I know some authors ( djb, of qmail [in]famy) would probably try to prohibit us from using a single user:group]. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message