Re: [Exim] uid/gid

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Author: John W Baxter
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To: exim
Subject: Re: [Exim] uid/gid
At 17:24 +0200 6/28/2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>Several Linux distributions use user mta (8) and group mail (6?), which
>seems sensible. The BSD's only have a standard group mail (6), no
>standard user.


We don't use a preexisting user or group...we define our own (with the same
UID and GID on all the Linux machines...unfortunately a different pair on
the soon-to-phase-out BSDi machines). So we can just copy another machine
if the need arises.

--john