Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:12:41 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: UID for SMTP daemon Message-ID: <30745.919203161@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Hi folks, I can think of two applications that offer smtp daemon services and like to run under their own uid -- postfix and exim. While I appreciate that Mr Bresler's import of postfix into the base system was shot down fair and square (or perhaps just square, don't go there), it does seem a pity that the user and group ids that he proposed to add didn't make it. There is already a precedent in the realm of creating users for applications that aren't distributed with the base system -- pop (uid 68). I couldn't give a sideways ____ at a rolling doughnut what the actual name of the uid and gid are -- mta, mail, smtp, billsux, whatever. All I want is a username that the exim port (and other ports, once there's a trend) can assume will be present on the box. PLEASE NOTE: I'm not interested in folks' opinions on this. I don't want to have a discussion. I just want the uid and gid committed. I'll take no comment as objection enough if nobody wants to commit this. Anything else is just going to be more noise on a noisy list. :-) Thanks, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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