On 7/30/19 7:09 AM, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29 2019, Brian Callahan <callab5@rpi.edu> wrote:
>> Hi ports --
>>
>> As the subject says, even though mail/dma isn't a daemon, I'd like to
>> take a user/group pairing out for it.
>>
>> OK?
> Well, can dma actually use this user/group, or not? A rationale would
> help, I think. :)
>
Sure. dma wants to drop privileges on startup. It also needs group write
access to write in its /var/spool/dma directory. By default, dma wants a
user and group named mail, but that's not really our style with ports so
I changed it to _dma.
~Brian
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