Apr 14, '04 09:13:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
Up to now, I've just been running a fixuppostfix script after the /usr/sbin/diskutil repairPermissions / command in my weekly.local to repair the repair. This works fine, but a bit of research on the web suggests that the postfix user is probably not quite right set to 255.
To fix this at the source, I opened up Netinfo Manager and selected users in column two, and postfix in column three. I changed the uid to 27 and saved the changes (you may be prompted to authenticate as an admin user).
Now, my periodic scripts don't break Postfix. No problems after a few weeks. An Apple update may break this in the future; at some point they will have to decide what the postfix UID is, and either Repair Permissions will agree with this, or not.
[robg adds: I don't run postfix and have no experience with it, so I can't comment on which UID is 'right.' If anyone can confirm (or not) this info, please feel free to do so in the comments...]
