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

[Thomas Goirand]

On 05/27/2017 01:48 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> 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".

But those who don't will have a useless user setup *every time* the
package is upgraded.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)