On Tue, Jul 30 2019, Brian Callahan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/30/19 7:09 AM, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 29 2019, Brian Callahan <[email protected]> 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.

Thanks for confirming.  ok jca@

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