From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Use acct-* for qmail users
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:38:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1584599.5F0ifjoCDD@daneel.sf-tec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9bf50c71-0c9f-ed23-06b1-1fe042dbcc88@gentoo.org>
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Am Mittwoch, 11. September 2019, 00:54:39 CEST schrieb Michael Orlitzky:
> On 9/10/19 4:25 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > I'm not entirely sure. It's what qmail always has done and what the eclass
> > also did.
>
> This is suggested by the qmail documentation,
>
> http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#create-users
>
> ...but goes back to at least 1998, and likely earlier. I grepped the
> source and don't see any obvious uses of $HOME. It was probably
> suggested by DJB simply because it's a directory, and guaranteed to
> exist on the various platforms that qmail supported at the time.
I have tested it without a home directory on 2 of my machines and it seems
like it works fine. I have removed the home directory from the patches.
Greetings,
Eike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-12 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-10 15:48 [gentoo-dev] Use acct-* for qmail users Rolf Eike Beer
2019-09-10 19:14 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-09-10 20:25 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2019-09-10 22:54 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-09-12 16:38 ` Rolf Eike Beer [this message]
2019-09-15 9:10 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2019-09-15 15:29 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-09-15 21:17 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2019-09-15 23:08 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-09-18 19:51 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2019-09-21 8:50 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2019-09-15 22:08 ` Peter Stuge
2019-09-15 23:10 ` Mike Gilbert
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