On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:42:07AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> --
> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 05:51, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:23:26AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> ---snip---
> > I am going to think about trying get a hardcoded uid for exim:exim
> > reserved on Debian.
> no... No... NOOOOO...
#219299
> If you do that Andreas, it'll break the transparency of MTA changeout in
> Debian... I make systems for other people with Debian's set
> guidelines... if they want exim/sendmail/qmail/smail/courier/etc... They
> all use the same uid:gid... I have even enforced this on my RedHat
> machines, Mandrake Machines and so on... It make life a bit easier, when
> I enforce Debian Policy on the builds of machines I make and maintain
> but can't be Debian due to "Officially Supported" on RedHat, SuSE,
> Mandrake or Gentoo etc...
Could you be more verbose? What would break if exim ran as
64025:64025? How does it differ from postfix or qmail, both run with
different IDs than exim on Debian systems, and apparently nothing
breaks for you.
cu andreas
