From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 18 6:26: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80B637B405; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 06:25:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 7D5B414C2E; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:25:55 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , ports@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned References: <29611.1003411145@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 18 Oct 2001 15:25:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <29611.1003411145@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sheldon Hearn writes: > So when exim needs to be run as "the unpriveleged user" (nobody by > default), which user should I use? It should set up and use its own UID, just like QMail and Postfix set up and use their own UIDs. Ideally, there would be a user in our standard master.passwd named "smtp" or "mail", with UID 25 (and of course a corresponding group). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message