On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:45:40PM -0400, Peter Green wrote:
>No. A UID and GID is required at compile-time to build the vpopmail package.
What's the reason for doing this? I presume it's meant to be some sort
of security thing, but I just don't see it. I mean, you have to go through
extra gyrations to emulate getpwnam. I had actually gone in and started
building a package and making patches to change this behavior, but
got stalled on that.
Sean
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