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

[Tony Finch]

Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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