Demi Marie Obenour via Postfix-devel:
> On 7/26/24 10:48, Wietse Venema via Postfix-devel wrote:
> > Patching the super-user name in the file postfix-script is only a
> > partial solution.
> >
> > One would also have to change the files $config_directory/postfix-files
> > and $config_directory/postfix-files.d/* with owner, group, and
> > access permissions, and how those files are used by "make install",
> > "make upgrade", "postmulti -e create", "postfix set-permissions",
> > and so on. And hundreds of "root" mentions in Postfix documentation.
> >
> > Postfix is compatible with a limited number of OS distributions.
> > It is not compatible with every possible site-specific tweak. POSIX
> > does not require a super-user, but Postfix does, and she must be
> > named "root".
> >
> > Wietse
>
> Is it permissible for there to be other super-user accounts? I know
> that FreeBSD had (and may still have) a "toor" account so that the
> superuser could change their default shell, as "root" used csh and
> some admins didn't like that.
Like this, found on FreeBSD 14.x?
root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
Postfix has run on FreeBSD since 1997, and this has never been a problem.
Wietse
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