[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug in postinst

[Loïc Minier]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005, Héctor García wrote:
> Doing it this way (your original patch plus 2 flags to adduser, needed
> in my opinion), fetchmail gets created if it didn't exists
> and /var/run/fetchmail only gets to change permisions and owner if it
> didn't exits (just thing of people with old conf that use another user
> to run fetchmail, but uses same dir).

 Well, the chmod is never going to run for new installs, and that's bad.

 I explicitely forced the creation of the directory outside of adduser
 so that the permissions are forcibly set, and that is true in both of
 my patches.

 The fetchmail user and run directory are only used for the fetchmail
 daemon, people will local hacks to run it as a different user or with
 different permissions should simply live with them and fix their
 system IMO.

 I consider it harmful to try to support configuration schemes that were
 never officially supported in the package or to invent possible ways in
 which the system might have been modified below /var or /usr.

 In this sense, I prefer adduser not to create the directory (as it
 doesn't offer a way to force the mode reliably and often breaks /
 changes interface), and the script to force the chmod + chown in all
 cases.

   Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
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