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 BE135138334 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 21:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FD8CE08C3; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 21:17:34 +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 B66FAE08A8 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 21:17:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3055 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2019 21:15:54 -0000 Received: from dslc-082-083-175-129.pools.arcor-ip.net ([::ffff:82.83.175.129]:36110 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 ; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:15:54 +0200 From: Rolf Eike Beer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Use acct-* for qmail users Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:17:25 +0200 Message-ID: <1924664.fjktzmOFx3@daneel.sf-tec.de> In-Reply-To: References: <1895278.F6jdylAkOj@daneel.sf-tec.de> <2584568.JUzTKViAHv@daneel.sf-tec.de> 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="nextPart3553563.FPJJLBykEb"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: d4a7f790-5693-4b75-9ad1-88fe6e7b6e9a X-Archives-Hash: e8d04adc549159e862f3e6f6b31316e1 --nextPart3553563.FPJJLBykEb Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Am Sonntag, 15. September 2019, 17:29:11 CEST schrieb Mike Gilbert: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 5:10 AM Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 12. September 2019, 18:38:30 CEST schrieb Rolf Eike Beer: > > > 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. > > > > Ping? > > I still see ACCT_USER_HOME=/var/qmail/alias in acct-user/alias. This is not /var/qmail as for the other ones, but indeed the mail distribution user of qmail. The home directory is actually needed as this user receives all mail that cannot be delivered otherwise and can be rerouted from that home directory. > Also, please do not add packages with no maintainer listed in > metadata.xml. You can list yourself + proxy-maint at least. If you > don't want to maintain them, you'll need to find someone else to do > it. Hijacking qmail is a different story, I will care for that soon ;) Eike --nextPart3553563.FPJJLBykEb 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+abn8TgUCXX6qZQAKCRBcpIk+abn8 TierAKCTOrQX72s5HQC/IxF/61aZKmpjbACbB0e18ayqCsf2SGgojM9IULcNMLQ= =pVMd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3553563.FPJJLBykEb--