quick poppassd question

[Wolfpaw - Dale Corse]

In freebsd.. and most other things.. but some *cough* large corporate
linux distro's *cough*redhat*cough* ignore such defaco standards.. we
must consider portability especially if the patch will be submitted 
for integration into the package..no? :)

D.
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Dale Corse
System Administrator
Wolfpaw Services Inc.
http://www.wolfpaw.net
(780) 474-4095

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Fritchman [mailto:petef at FreeBSD.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:35 AM
> To: Troy Settle
> Cc: 'Mark Sergeant'; 'Wolfpaw - Dale Corse'; 'Support'; 
> isp at freebsd.org;
> security at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: quick poppassd question
> 
> 
> ++ 02/06/03 11:49 -0400 - Troy Settle:
> | Perhaps someone can shed more light on the subject, but it's my
> | impression that most system process run with a UID/GID 
> under 100.  So a
> | uid < 100 should deny the change request.
> 
> UIDs up to and including 999 are reserved for system use.  
> For example,
> see this section in the porters handbook:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-han
> dbook/dads-uid.html
> 
> --pete
> 
>