On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:11:20AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg wrote:
> >drwxr-xr-x daemon/daemon 0 2006-09-09 21:54:23 ./var/run/courier/
> >drwxr-x--- daemon/daemon 0 2006-09-09 21:54:23
> >./var/run/courier/authdaemon/
> >* ask the maintainer or courier-authdaemon and courier-maildrop what's
> > their strategy with this whole daemon user thing :)
>
> The packages started with daemon years ago and I tried to allocate fixed
> UID/GID for courier, but that was denied. So I sticked with that. Any
> advice is welcome.
Add a dynamic system user in maintainer scripts and use that? That way,
users of maildrop can switch to that when they have both programs installed.
They'd still have to give up mail setgid, but for many people that's a
non-issue.
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