On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 20:48:59 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> Will ports adapt easily to this? Yes. Those that already try to work around the absence of a reserved user will have to do less work. Those that run priveledged will be easier to transition to a non-priveledged state. > Having ports add their own users and groups is fairly trivial. You are right. But it seems to me that it's unnecessary work when there's already a username reserved for them. > 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'').
