On 05/25/2017 10:59 AM, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:00:37PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have seen your patches, however, I don't think it is really necessary >> to add a new system user for mlmmj. There are many ways to use MLMMJ, >> one would be without using any system user at all, which is what one >> would use to do virtual hosting, and which is what I do. In such a >> configuration, the username would not be mlmmj. Therefore, it's best to >> just leave the choice to the user and let him do it by hand. > > It is the "add an user _by hand_" that I want to avoid.
There's no way to avoid it, since this is a very specific way to use MLMMJ (ie: using a single mlmmj system account isn't the way when doing virtual hosting). >> I believe here, you're maybe too much influenced by bad practice with >> less good list manager, like mailman, maybe? > > Both http://mlmmj.org/docs/readme-exim4/ and > http://mlmmj.org/docs/readme-postfix/ > say to create a mlmmj user. This is *one way* to do things, yes. > What would an acceptable place for inclusion of > > > adduser --system --quiet \ > --home /var/spool/mlmmj --no-create-home \ > --shell /bin/false --ingroup mlmmj \ > --gecos "Mailing List Management Made Joyful" \ > mlmmj I don't think so. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
