From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 2 8: 9:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9349915480 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 08:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (Hamilton-ppp44902.sympatico.ca [206.172.76.95]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA24670; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:08:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA03144; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:06:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:06:41 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's Message-ID: <19990902110641.A2762@mad> Reply-To: hoek@FreeBSD.org References: <19990902100845.A1098@mad> <26077.936283031@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <26077.936283031@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 04:37:11PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 04:37:11PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > It's certainly something I'd like to take a shot at, yes. Perhaps I'm > going about this the wrong way. Perhaps I should first provide a knob > that allows sendmail to be run non-priveledged. Once that's done, add a > user for it to run as. And then once that new user has had considerable time to settle, rip all the user/group stuff from the mta ports and change them to use an arbitrary user/group that defaults to whatever you added for sendmail. But if you go about it this way, give the new user:group time to settle so that ripping the pkg/INSTALL scripts (which are used for both binary packages _and_ build-from-source ports) breaks only a few people. [I think this has been mentioned before, too, but don't try to change the ids qmail uses or the author may try to stand on certain legal rights he has retained.] -- 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