On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Manvendra Bhangui <mbhan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Matt Brookings <m...@inter7.com> wrote: >> >> What does this patch do exactly? From looking at the patch and trying it, >> I don't see any difference in operation related to the requirement of >> root. > > The patch removes all references to user/groups in /etc/passwd and hence > dependency of having vpopmail user in /etc/passwd. > > This will allow compilation of vpopmail without root. It will also allow > installation as non-root in a destination directory owned by the user. > e.g. > make DESTDIR=$HOME/vpopmail install > > Once you do this, it would be trivial writing a .spec file for vpopmail and > build rpm as non-root.
And trivially creating a problem with HFS or FSB. > -- [ ]'s Aledr - Alexandre "OpenSource Solutions for SmallBusiness Problems" !DSPAM:4991c86332685997919599!
