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

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am Sonntag, 15. September 2019, 17:29:11 CEST schrieb Mike Gilbert:
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 5:10 AM Rolf Eike Beer <eike@×××××××.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.

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