And since no one else has mentioned this...some of us don't use /etc/passwd for
authentication. So searching /etc/passwd would not work anyway. Isn't there a C
function call to check user/group id? Or at least a universal alternative...
t
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From: Matt Brookings <m...@inter7.com>
To: vchkpw@inter7.com <vchkpw@inter7.com>
Sent: Mon Aug 17 09:18:19 2009
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail UID/GID hardcoded in config.h
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Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
> currently vpopmail user and vchkpw group's need's to be created before
> running ./configure.
>
> this is not good for packaging it as rpm, because in rpm the user and
> group are created in %post section (after vpopmail installed)
I'm pretty sure there are RPMs that handle this situation already. How
do they do it?
> any chance to improve this with automatic detection uid and gid using
> getpwnam function ?
I'm not sure if this would be considered an improvement. Parsing /etc/passwd
every time a vpopmail binary is invoked could be expensive on some systems.
I'm looking at adding a configuration file to vpopmail for the 5.5 branch that
will contain all the stuff that usually you have to set at configure time. The
UID/GID would be contained here as well, but that's not currently available.
Just an OT about the config: It will be compiled so as to be very quick to load.
Thoughts anyone?
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