Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:06:41 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's Message-ID: <19990902110641.A2762@mad> In-Reply-To: <26077.936283031@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 04:37:11PM %2B0200 References: <19990902100845.A1098@mad> <26077.936283031@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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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
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