Necessary Users & Groups

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Hi,
   If you are running sendmail 8.12.x, you will need group and user
"smmsp" which should be uid and gid 25 by default.  You may need another
user/group for Mcafee; Sophos uses its own user and group.

** Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D
** Senior UNIX Sysadmin, Information Technology
** Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,
** Waterville ME, 04901-8842
** phone: 207-872-3659 (fax = 3076)

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Steve Evans wrote:

> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:37:21 -0700
> From: Steve Evans <sevans at FOUNDATION.SDSU.EDU>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Necessary Users & Groups
>
> What are the necessary users and groups for a Redhat system running ONLY
> MailScanner + SpamAssassin + Mcafee + Sendmail.  I only need root right?
>
> Steve Evans
> SDSU Foundation
> (619) 594-0653
>