From: "D. Boland" <daniel@boland.nl>
To: Cygwin applications <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [ITP] Sendmail 8.14.9
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 08:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <545C801E.2D00313@boland.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141103172416.GI28636@calimero.vinschen.de>
Hi Corinna,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> On Nov 3 18:16, Christian Franke wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >On Nov 2 13:43, Christian Franke wrote:
> > >>D. Boland wrote:
> > >>>Christian Franke wrote:
> > >>>>The following should IMO never be done in a postinstall script:
> > >>>>- Creation of user and group accounts.
> > >>>>- Installation of services.
> > >>>>- Setting alternatives to manual mode (/usr/sbin/alternatives --set ...)
> > >>>>Please consider moving the above to the sendmail-config script.
> > >>>All steps in postinstall are necessary for running Sendmail.
> > >>Note that the above steps are re-done on each package update.
> > >>
> > >>The installation of sendmail does not imply that the user wants to run it
> > >>immediately.
> > >These are important points.
> > >
> > >For other services we never create the accounts without the user
> > >explicitely requesting them by calling the <service>-config script.
> > >
> > >The other problem is that you don't know if creating the a local account
> > >is the right thing to do. In many companies there are restrictions on
> > >creating a local account and a domain account has to be created instead.
> > >Your config script has to take that into account by checking if a matching
> > >user account exists already or to ask the user if it should be created.
> >
> > BTW: The procmail package is also affected. Its postinstall script creates a
> > local group 'mail' using 'net localgroup ...'. This should be changed, IMO.
>
> Ouch, I didn't see that when I GTGed the package :(
>
> Yes, that should definitely be changed for the same reasons.
I understand. I'll come up with an elegant solution for procmail ASAP.
D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-07 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-26 17:41 D. Boland
2014-10-27 17:07 ` Christian Franke
2014-11-02 6:58 ` D. Boland
2014-11-02 12:44 ` Christian Franke
2014-11-03 9:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-03 17:16 ` Christian Franke
2014-11-03 17:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-07 8:11 ` D. Boland [this message]
2014-11-15 18:34 ` D. Boland
2014-11-17 9:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-19 4:45 ` D. Boland
2014-11-19 5:21 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-11-20 8:23 ` D. Boland
2014-11-20 8:53 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-10-30 17:35 D. Boland
2014-10-31 9:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-01 5:38 ` D. Boland
2014-11-01 15:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-14 19:00 D. Boland
2014-08-14 20:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-22 5:39 ` D. Boland
2014-08-22 8:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-22 18:14 ` D. Boland
2014-08-22 21:39 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-08-24 6:33 ` D. Boland
2014-08-25 23:16 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-08-26 8:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-26 13:51 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2014-08-26 18:49 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-27 15:16 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2014-08-28 10:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-28 16:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-28 20:14 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2015-02-17 11:57 ` D. Boland
2015-02-17 12:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-17 15:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-17 17:19 ` D. Boland
2015-02-17 22:51 ` Christian Franke
2015-02-17 23:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-03 12:08 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-04 11:37 ` Daniel
2015-04-07 8:58 ` Corinna Vinschen
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