From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 2 14:32:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0F214C99 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40327>; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 07:29:52 +1000 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 07:31:32 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <99Sep3.072952est.40327@border.alcanet.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. I'd support this. I think the GID should be 25 as well. David Wolfskill wrote: >I think the overall idea is good, though my tendency has been to use >somewhat higher numbers (like 65532 or 65533). I prefer 25 because it's mnemonic - since SMTP is on port 25. (And since commonality has been raised, it's worthwhile noting that Solaris refuses to accept UID's and GIDs muvh above 60000). > And I do it with sendmail. So do I. Warner Losh wrote: >postmanpete Maybe postmanpat - which isn't sexist, though the ANAL types[*] may have conniptions. :-) [*] As in `IANAL, but...'. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message