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Tweak postfix User IDs to align with Repair Permissions
Authored by: thoughton on Apr 14, '04 03:11:49PM

After following the instructions in this hint to change the uid to 27 I repaired permissions but it broke postfix again. However after also changing the gid to 27 postfix continues working even through repairing permissions. I don't know if changing the gid will cause any problems later.

Oh yes, my uid and gid were both previously 23456. This may have been due to using Postfix Enabler to first setup postfix, I don't know.



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Tweak postfix User IDs to align with Repair Permissions
Authored by: Anonymous on Apr 14, '04 07:11:05PM

It should be ok. Interestingly enough, the postfix GID on my box is 255. The important group ID is "postdrop" which should be 28. However, the postfix group does not appear to be used, whereas the postdrop group is.

I don't know why the UID and GID was set to 23456 or 255, but this appears to be incorrect.

Generally, non-login users like postfix should be

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Tweak postfix User IDs to align with Repair Permissions
Authored by: thoughton on Apr 15, '04 03:30:27AM

Hmm strange that postfix wouldnt work for me with gid of 23456 but yours worked with 255. Oddly enough, after changing the postfix gid from 23456 to 27 and repairing permissions, I noticed a few lines about 'postdrop should be 28, currently is 23456, repairing' etc messages. Strange since I didn't set anything to gid 28 that I know of.

Anyway I'm just glad I finally got it to stop breaking whenever CCC repaired permissions. I hadn't even prepared a high-tech script like you :-) I just manually pasted in that chunk of sudo chowns every time! So I am mightily pleased not to have to do that anymore :-) so thanks for the hint!



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