On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 12:39:28AM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > 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.
Will ports adapt easily to this? Having ports add their own users and groups is fairly trivial. Using a single user:group could make some of the ports less standard (eg. most of the world does not run qmail under user ``smtp'' or group ``mail''). OTOH, I can see that having a common user:group would be useful and make some things easier, too. [I'm not saying I'm opposed; I'm asking if it really makes sense for the ports to use a single mta user:group ... I know some authors (<cough> djb, of qmail [in]famy) would probably try to prohibit us from using a single user:group]. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
