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Tweak postfix User IDs to align with Repair Permissions
Authored by: danielj7 on Apr 14, '04 07:13:46PM

This is caused by older versions of Fink. Under 10.2, the Fink package "passwd" would create a "postfix" user with ID 255. It also creates groups "postfix" and "mail" with IDs of 255 and 261. Early releases of Fink for 10.3 continued to do this, and overwrote Apple's versions which are new to 10.3. Also, when updating to 10.3 when Fink has already been installed, Apple's installer doesn't overwrite the "postfix" user and group so they remain 255. Recent versions of Fink don't do this anymore, but the damage isn't undone if you used an older version.

The way to fix it is to use Netinfo Manager, as indicated. You also should make sure that the "postfix" and "mail" groups have IDs of 27 and 6.



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Tweak postfix User IDs to align with Repair Permissions
Authored by: Anonymous on Apr 14, '04 07:23:30PM

Thanks for this explanation. The GID for mail is already 6 on my 10.3.3. The postfix GID does not seem to be used (or "wheel" is good enough). Of course, there are those directories that require "postdrop", which wants to be "28", and was correct on my box.

I changed it (the postfix GID) to 27 anyway.

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