From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 16:22:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3EC116A420 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:22:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from evanben@earthlink.net) Received: from fall-curlleaf.atl.sa.earthlink.net (fall-curlleaf.atl.sa.earthlink.net [207.69.195.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CAD13C455 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:22:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from evanben@earthlink.net) Received: from pop-satin.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([207.69.195.63]) by fall-curlleaf.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1JFsyh-0003DV-9M for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:17:55 -0500 Received: from user-160u9tg.cable.mindspring.com ([76.15.39.176] helo=[192.168.25.97]) by pop-satin.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1JFsyX-0005yY-00; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:17:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4790C318.2030303@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:17:44 -0500 From: Erik Van Benschoten Organization: Valley Comnet, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florent Thoumie References: <4790952F.6070702@valleycomnet.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Erik Van Benschoten , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISC DHCP Server port UID/GID question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:22:47 -0000 I noticed that, but I believe that that is a privilege separation account that is used with the OpenBSD-version of the dhclient. Also, as I pointed out, if this is usable, then why isn't the isc-dhcp-server port using it instead of allocating a UID/GID for itself during the install? Erik Florent Thoumie wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 12:01 PM, Erik Van Benschoten wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Is there a specific reason that the port of the ISC's DHCP server does >> not seem to have/use a registered UID/GID? > > Maybe because there's already _dhcp user (uid 65) in base? >