From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 204E1138334 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:38:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97EE2E093A; Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.sf-mail.de (mail.sf-mail.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:1c17:6fae:616d:6c69:616d:6c69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9C008E08FB for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 23198 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2019 16:37:12 -0000 Received: from dslb-088-071-108-010.088.071.pools.vodafone-ip.de ([::ffff:88.71.108.10]:41360 HELO daneel.sf-tec.de) (auth=eike@sf-mail.de) by mail.sf-mail.de (Qsmtpd 0.36dev) with (DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPSA for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:37:12 +0200 From: Rolf Eike Beer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Michael Orlitzky Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Use acct-* for qmail users Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:38:30 +0200 Message-ID: <1584599.5F0ifjoCDD@daneel.sf-tec.de> In-Reply-To: <9bf50c71-0c9f-ed23-06b1-1fe042dbcc88@gentoo.org> References: <1895278.F6jdylAkOj@daneel.sf-tec.de> <2008949.DR2h0dBj5l@daneel.sf-tec.de> <9bf50c71-0c9f-ed23-06b1-1fe042dbcc88@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8005208.oIuBejIM3d"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 9b9c8b27-86b3-4080-9037-4751dd1472ce X-Archives-Hash: d6a4a75fd3abed13757488d69d159535 --nextPart8005208.oIuBejIM3d Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 --nextPart8005208.oIuBejIM3d Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQSaYVDeqwKa3fTXNeNcpIk+abn8TgUCXXp0hgAKCRBcpIk+abn8 Tvk+AJ46wGLcTZsfI0prdhr8HYi8dsVCyQCghZzgBRbcwCW/eFvfytfkO1OsYzE= =iEzC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8005208.oIuBejIM3d--