On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 20:48:59 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:

> Will ports adapt easily to this?

Yes. Those that already try to work around the absence of a reserved
user will have to do less work. Those that run priveledged will be
easier to transition to a non-priveledged state.

> Having ports add their own users and groups is fairly trivial.

You are right. But it seems to me that it's unnecessary work when
there's already a username reserved for them.

> Using a single user:group could make some of the ports less standard
> (eg. most of the world does not run qmail under user ``smtp'' or
> group ``mail'').

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