Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:00:03 -0800 (PST) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/33929: Section 15.15 of the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook needs to be updated. Message-ID: <200201240100.g0O103a88522@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/33929; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: Yarema <yds@CoolRat.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, dwhite@freebsd.org,
lioux@freebsd.org, dinoex@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/33929: Section 15.15 of the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook needs to be updated.
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 02:47:55 +0200
Adding to audit-trail:
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:52:57 +0100
From: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer)
Subject: Re: Section 15.15 of the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook needs to be updated.
> to bring them all in sync. Changes include adding user 'bind' UID 53 to
> the top of the list, adding user 'courier' and sorting the list by UID so
> that future UID duplication is easier to avoid. User 'bind' UID 53 already
> exists in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd and this section documents UIDs 50
> through 999. So user 'bind' clearly needs to be documented here.
>
> Of interest to the mail/sendmail port is that I removed:
>
> smmsp:*:90:90:Sendmail Queue:/nonexistent:/nonexistent
>
> since user 'smmsp' already exists as UID 25 in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd --
> patching the mail/sendmail port to use UID 25 instad of 90 makes more sense
> (to me at least).
1) The sendmail port uses an already existiting UID/GID and does not remove it.
2) It may violate POLA to make the sendmail port create this UID/GID on
older FreeBSD-Systems with 25 instead of 90.
kind regards Dirk
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