[Pkg-mlmmj-devel] Bug#862258: Bug#862258: add an user for mlmmj

[Thomas Goirand]

On 05/25/2017 10:59 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:00:37PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have seen your patches, however, I don't think it is really necessary
>> to add a new system user for mlmmj. There are many ways to use MLMMJ,
>> one would be without using any system user at all, which is what one
>> would use to do virtual hosting, and which is what I do. In such a
>> configuration, the username would not be mlmmj. Therefore, it's best to
>> just leave the choice to the user and let him do it by hand.
> 
> It is the "add an user _by hand_" that I want to avoid.

There's no way to avoid it, since this is a very specific way to use
MLMMJ (ie: using a single mlmmj system account isn't the way when doing
virtual hosting).

>> I believe here, you're maybe too much influenced by bad practice with
>> less good list manager, like mailman, maybe?
> 
> Both http://mlmmj.org/docs/readme-exim4/ and http://mlmmj.org/docs/readme-postfix/
> say to create a mlmmj user.

This is *one way* to do things, yes.

> What would an acceptable place for inclusion of 
> 
> 
>             adduser --system --quiet \
>                 --home /var/spool/mlmmj --no-create-home \
>                 --shell /bin/false --ingroup mlmmj \
>                 --gecos "Mailing List Management Made Joyful" \
>                 mlmmj

I don't think so.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)