Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

[Keith Stevenson]

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 06:33:06PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> 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.
> 

This sounds quite reasonable to me.  We already have a precedent in the
bind (uid=53) user.

Regards,
--Keith Stevenson--

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