Demi Marie Obenour via Postfix-devel: > 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.
Like this, found on FreeBSD 14.x? root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: Postfix has run on FreeBSD since 1997, and this has never been a problem. Wietse _______________________________________________ Postfix-devel mailing list -- postfix-devel@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-devel-le...@postfix.org