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

[Geert Stappers]

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 01:43:01PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 05/25/2017 10:59 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:00:37PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> >> 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.

Those who want to use that mlmmj user will benefit from the "postinst adduser".
 

> > 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.
> 


Thing I miss in this discussion is how a mlmmj user is harming other workflows.

Could the virtual hosting workflow / setup be elaborated?



Groeten
Geert Stappers
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