From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 21:26:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BC737B407 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:26:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ongs.co.jp (ns.ongs.co.jp [202.216.232.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8078B4400F for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:26:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daichi@ongs.co.jp) Received: (qmail 4301 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2003 04:14:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO parancell.ongs.co.jp) (202.216.232.62) by ns.ongs.co.jp with SMTP; 1 Jul 2003 04:14:11 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 13:26:32 +0900 From: daichi To: Kris Kennaway Message-Id: <20030701132632.2a5fb593.daichi@ongs.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20030701001754.GA72598@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200306301406.h5UE6Zdd013151@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030630211935.GA71572@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030630220229.GA58820@cus.org.uk> <20030701001754.GA72598@rot13.obsecurity.org> Organization: ONGS Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: kris@obsecurity.org cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: daichi@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/dovecot pkg-install ports/mail/dovecot/files README.FreeBSD patch-dovecot-example.conf X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:26:22 -0000 > > I'm a little confused. Does this apply for users and groups were the > > actual numbers don't matter ? In Dovecot the extra user is just used > > as a seperate identity to partition login, authentication and active > > users securely. Or do should all users and groups which are going to > > be added by a port by listed in the Porters Handbook. The handbook > > itself seems to suggest the former. > > So there is nothing in the port or package that hard-codes the value > of the uid at compile or package-time, for example files owned by the > dovecot user? > > If not, it's probably OK. I think there is not uid/gid hard-code in dovecot ports. -- Daichi GOTO, http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi