Package: dovecot-common
Version: 1.0.rc15-2etch1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
>From <http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds> :
| dovecot user isn't used for any kind of mail processing - don't store users'
| mails as dovecot, and don't put dovecot user to mail or any other groups.
The postinst script does not follow this recommendation, and I fail to see why.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages dovecot-common depends on:
ii add 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii lib 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lib 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 common error description library
ii lib 1.4.4-7etch4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii lib 2.1.30-13.3 OpenLDAP libraries
ii lib 5.0.32-7etch3 mysql database client library
ii lib 0.79-4 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii lib 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii lib 8.1.9-0etch1 PostgreSQL C client library
ii lib 3.3.8-1.1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii lib 0.9.8c-4etch1 SSL shared libraries
ii ope 0.9.8c-4etch1 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
ii zli 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
dovecot-common recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- a/debian/dovecot-common.postinst
+++ b/debian/dovecot-common.postinst
@@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
--disabled-password --quiet dovecot || true
fi
- if [ -z "`id dovecot | grep '(mail)' 2> /dev/null`" ]; then
- /usr/sbin/adduser dovecot mail || true
- fi
-
# Fix permissions
chmod 755 /var/run/dovecot
chmod 750 /var/run/dovecot/login
