Re: [blfs-dev] New uid for fetchmail ?

2019-10-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 10/13/19 7:17 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: For a long time, fetchmail has warned about running as root. For 6.4.1 I'm inclined to try running it as user fetchmail and group nogroup. But that raises the question of which uid to assign. Looking at /postlfs/users.html (or postlfs/config/

Re: [blfs-dev] New uid for fetchmail ?

2019-10-13 Thread Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev
On 10/14/19 2:17 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: For a long time, fetchmail has warned about running as root. For 6.4.1 I'm inclined to try running it as user fetchmail and group nogroup. But that raises the question of which uid to assign. Looking at /postlfs/users.html (or postlfs/config/

[blfs-dev] New uid for fetchmail ?

2019-10-13 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
For a long time, fetchmail has warned about running as root. For 6.4.1 I'm inclined to try running it as user fetchmail and group nogroup. But that raises the question of which uid to assign. Looking at /postlfs/users.html (or postlfs/config/users.xml) I can see there are gaps: from 10 to 15, a