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

[Andrew Reilly]

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:51:10PM +0200, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Doug wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > 
> >     Why not do this as part of the port itself, ala majordomo? That
> > works just fine and is completely non-controversial because you don't get
> > it unless you ask for it.
> 
> I would just liek to point out that Postfix is also doing the exact same
> thing ... user postfix ... (as well as a group maildrop)

Another data point: qmail adds _seven_ new users, and one new
group.  It has a very paranoid security model.

I think that it uses a script to add them, but maybe I did it
myself.  It was a while ago...

-- 
Andrew


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