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

[Sheldon Hearn]

On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 16:01:40 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> > The numeric id IS important.
> > How do you think NFS maintains privileges across machines?
> 
> I have no idea how NFS works. :-)

I've educated myself and now see your point. :-)

The point, though, is now simply that we should strive to come up with a
``mailman'' / ``smtp'' user whose UID is the same as that of as many
other systems as possible.

Solaris doesn't help me, because they use UID 0. :-)

NetBSD have user ``postfix'' with UID 12.

Slackware Linux seems to have a user ``mail'' with UID 8.

I don't have access to other platforms.

I'm inclined to go with UID 12, but if you could suggest something
better, I'd appreciate it.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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