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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:12:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Yarema <yds@CoolRat.org>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@FreeBSD.org>, Ports FreeBSD <ports@FreeBSD.org>, <lioux@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ports/31473: New port: Courier-MTA SMTP IMAP POP3 HTTP mail server suite
Message-ID:  <20020115131138.G50538-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2169850000.1011079696@volyn.coolrat.org>

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Yarema wrote:

> Now that this has been committed, Section 15.15 of the FreeBSD Porter's
> Handbook needs to be updated.  I chose to add user 'courier' and group
> 'courier' as UID and GID 62.  There's a problem with that section of the
> Handbook.  Since the qmail users are not sorted by UID 'msql' and 'qmails'
> ended up with the same UID which is probaly a security hole for either one
> or both of those ports.  I've never submitted a PR for something other than
> ports so I'm not sure where to find the source to the Porter's Handbook.
> I'd be happy to roll and submit the patch myself.  In any case courier does
> require a hardcoded UID/GID.  Doesn't have to be 62, but that one's as good
> as any.

Oh that's handy. You can submit a normal PR on it, against the ports
category. I'll try to prod some people on it.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org


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