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On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 23:32, Sean Mitchell wrote: |
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> Ah! |
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> Okay... is this because there's no sanctioned way to do it from an ebuild? |
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> Seems to me that /etc/passwd could get huge if we did this for any package |
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> that wants its own userid(s). |
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> I'm thinking that I should just call useradd... anyone have wisdom to the |
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> contrary to offer? |
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> On a bit of a tangent, I'm wondering if a qmail or maybe a maildir USE |
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> variable wouldn't be justified as it can have a big impact on other |
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> packages. Mailmail is going to require some tweaking for sure. |
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What I would have done, is create a pkg_postinst() like |
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follow: |
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pkg_postinst() { |
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if [ -z "`grep "mailman" /etc/passwd`" ] ; then |
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echo |
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echo "***************************************" |
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echo "* Please create a user called mailman *" |
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echo "***************************************" |
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fi |
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} |
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Or similar. I for one do not want stuff just to mess with |
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my config files without me knowing. After all, Gentoo tries |
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to be user friendly without crippeling the user ... and |
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how much effort is it to creat the user exactly how you like |
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it ? |
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Greetings, |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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