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On Nov 3 18:16, Christian Franke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Nov 2 13:43, Christian Franke wrote: > >>D. Boland wrote: > >>>Christian Franke wrote: > >>>>The following should IMO never be done in a postinstall script: > >>>>- Creation of user and group accounts. > >>>>- Installation of services. > >>>>- Setting alternatives to manual mode (/usr/sbin/alternatives --set ...) > >>>>Please consider moving the above to the sendmail-config script. > >>>All steps in postinstall are necessary for running Sendmail. > >>Note that the above steps are re-done on each package update. > >> > >>The installation of sendmail does not imply that the user wants to run it > >>immediately. > >These are important points. > > > >For other services we never create the accounts without the user > >explicitely requesting them by calling the <service>-config script. > > > >The other problem is that you don't know if creating the a local account > >is the right thing to do. In many companies there are restrictions on > >creating a local account and a domain account has to be created instead. > >Your config script has to take that into account by checking if a matching > >user account exists already or to ask the user if it should be created. > > BTW: The procmail package is also affected. Its postinstall script creates a > local group 'mail' using 'net localgroup ...'. This should be changed, IMO. Ouch, I didn't see that when I GTGed the package :( Yes, that should definitely be changed for the same reasons. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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