Re: ITP: opensmtpd -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol daemon

2013-05-27 Thread Daniel Walrond
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 02:16:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Daniel Walrond writes: > > > As per policy 10.9 - Permissions and owners[0], opensmtpd requires > > some system users for running non-root-privileged processes. I propose > > to user the following dynamic accounts; opensmtpd, opensmt

Re: ITP: opensmtpd -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol daemon

2013-05-23 Thread Wookey
+++ Colin Watson [2013-05-22 22:55 +0100]: > > * Append "Debian-" to the username, as in Debian-opensmtpd > > This was used by Debian-exim and not a lot else that I ever heard of. > In my view this scheme rightly failed; plenty of simple system > monitoring tools (top, ps, and the like) truncate l

Re: ITP: opensmtpd -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol daemon

2013-05-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 02:16:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > We currently have no good policy about how to name system users, but > despite that I personally would recommend against using simple > alphanumeric usernames like those. (They are longer than eight > characters, which avoids some loc

Re: ITP: opensmtpd -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol daemon

2013-05-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Walrond writes: > As per policy 10.9 - Permissions and owners[0], opensmtpd requires > some system users for running non-root-privileged processes. I propose > to user the following dynamic accounts; opensmtpd, opensmtpq, opensmtpf. > Also I will be co-maintaining this package with Ryan K

Re: ITP: opensmtpd -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol daemon

2013-05-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 09:13:18PM +0100, Daniel Walrond wrote: > As per policy 10.9 - Permissions and owners[0], opensmtpd requires > some system users for running non-root-privileged processes. I propose > to user the following dynamic accounts; opensmtpd, opensmtpq, opensmtpf. Thanks for CCing

Re: ITP: opensmtpd -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol daemon

2013-05-22 Thread Daniel Walrond
Hello, As per policy 10.9 - Permissions and owners[0], opensmtpd requires some system users for running non-root-privileged processes. I propose to user the following dynamic accounts; opensmtpd, opensmtpq, opensmtpf. Also I will be co-maintaining this package with Ryan Kavanagh, who has already