Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:16:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> Cc: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New sendmail users (was Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned) Message-ID: <200110182216.f9IMGFU10016@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3BCF1A60.13C78B28@DougBarton.net>
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Doug Barton wrote: > My only objection is the name of the user for uid 25. It should be > smtp, both to match the service name for the port, and to make it more > generic which will help us avoid the inevitable whining and crying from > the anti-sendmail crowd. Port 26 is currently unassigned, so it's as > good a candidate for your mailnull user as any. I think that name is a > little wacky, but since that's the default in sendmail and there's no > contenders for port 26, it's as good as any I suppose. :) do you care about default user names and uids of other platforms such as HP-UX, Solairs, IRIX, AIX, etc. ? as I remember me smtp is already used by Solaris an is 0. this may cause problems in a NIS/NFS environment... Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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