From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 15:54:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6695B15AA4 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:54:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.3/frmug-2.5/nospam) with UUCP id AAA14678 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:53:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id D9AC88711; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:39:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:39:28 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's Message-ID: <19990902003928.A33233@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: hackers@freebsd.org References: <17825.936203586@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <17825.936203586@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 06:33:06PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#5543 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Sheldon Hearn: > I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group > ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is > primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports. What about "mta", a name that was suggested (and used on hub I think) by Jonathan (Bresler) when we were talking about Postfix integration. BTW I'd still see Postfix standard in FreeBSD :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #73: Sat Jul 31 15:36:05 CEST 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message