> Phil Leinhauser wrote: >> Seeing the traffic recently about uninstalling postfix and dovecot and >> making sure UID 89 is available brings up a question I have had. >> >> What it so special about UID 89? Is it something more than just most >> of the mail systems have a common heritage and someone in the early >> years picked a random ID that stuck? >> >> Just curious... >> Phil > > As far as I know 89:89 was picked for QMT years ago and just has never > been changed - I do not know the original reasoning behind it. I have > performed other Qmail (non-toaster) installations where vpopmail used a > different UID (see the qmail-newu command, used in my restore script > just for this) but we've stuck with it because, well, I saw no reason to > change it and I'm lazy ;) > I also don't see the harm in leaving it since it forces problems when a > user does not remove other MTAs such as Postfix before trying to install > our MTA. By leaving it 89:89 it visually shows a problem and the user > can then remove the other MTA that would just cause problems later down > the road anyway. At least that's my justification.
And you're sticking to it!! lol. Thanks, I thought it was something like that.
