On 7/26/24 10:48, Wietse Venema via Postfix-devel wrote: > Patching the super-user name in the file postfix-script is only a > partial solution. > > One would also have to change the files $config_directory/postfix-files > and $config_directory/postfix-files.d/* with owner, group, and > access permissions, and how those files are used by "make install", > "make upgrade", "postmulti -e create", "postfix set-permissions", > and so on. And hundreds of "root" mentions in Postfix documentation. > > Postfix is compatible with a limited number of OS distributions. > It is not compatible with every possible site-specific tweak. POSIX > does not require a super-user, but Postfix does, and she must be > named "root". > > Wietse
Is it permissible for there to be other super-user accounts? I know that FreeBSD had (and may still have) a "toor" account so that the superuser could change their default shell, as "root" used csh and some admins didn't like that. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _______________________________________________ Postfix-devel mailing list -- postfix-devel@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-devel-le...@postfix.org
