Sheldon Hearn <sheld...@uunet.co.za> wrote: > >The numeric ID is not important. Neither is the name. So long as there's >something that people maintaining ports can use. I've followed Solaris' >lead on the choice of name, ``smtp''.
Hmm. One of my Solaris boxen has mail:x:6:6:Unprivileged mail user:/: smtp:x:0:0:Mail Daemon User:/: (Presumably the smtp user is privileged in order to bind to port 25.) I prefer user & group mail since it is non-cryptic and common. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch d...@dotat.at f...@demon.net e pluribus unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
