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Am Mittwoch, 11. September 2019, 00:54:39 CEST schrieb Michael Orlitzky: |
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> On 9/10/19 4:25 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: |
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> > I'm not entirely sure. It's what qmail always has done and what the eclass |
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> > also did. |
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> This is suggested by the qmail documentation, |
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> http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#create-users |
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> ...but goes back to at least 1998, and likely earlier. I grepped the |
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> source and don't see any obvious uses of $HOME. It was probably |
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> suggested by DJB simply because it's a directory, and guaranteed to |
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> exist on the various platforms that qmail supported at the time. |
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I have tested it without a home directory on 2 of my machines and it seems |
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like it works fine. I have removed the home directory from the patches. |
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Greetings, |
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Eike |