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 9392B138334 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 15:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DAF4E08AC; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 15:29:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (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 0CCEEE0886 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 15:29:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io1-f48.google.com (mail-io1-f48.google.com [209.85.166.48]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0AE6234B1DD for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 15:29:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io1-f48.google.com with SMTP id b19so13128090iob.4 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 08:29:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVwuLp2l+n4Xk/tbcUZ1ZzkAn9bzg5Qe8LxX4Z+H5gigFCGW9p3 3lb6/c9IIrd3KhfA7cSBx5pufoDPHDP2sQzccfk= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwQletn5rNQRxhJY7zOFmplxrqIUC5O41jIsQrHrlsmxozpO3afGflNNqw+F3oktn1IfQCYmClesrn3Rhn+arI= X-Received: by 2002:a6b:7d45:: with SMTP id d5mr11377174ioq.54.1568561362101; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 08:29:22 -0700 (PDT) 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 References: <1895278.F6jdylAkOj@daneel.sf-tec.de> <9bf50c71-0c9f-ed23-06b1-1fe042dbcc88@gentoo.org> <1584599.5F0ifjoCDD@daneel.sf-tec.de> <2584568.JUzTKViAHv@daneel.sf-tec.de> In-Reply-To: <2584568.JUzTKViAHv@daneel.sf-tec.de> From: Mike Gilbert Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 11:29:11 -0400 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Use acct-* for qmail users To: Gentoo Dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 3ebaaf7d-80c1-44a0-82d1-5d422522f3f2 X-Archives-Hash: bfcf5d2cbaad7291ac79c79c9c76a1ba 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. 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.