Re: [gentoo-dev] Use acct-* for qmail users

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 5:10 AM Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de> 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.

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.