sympa.spec

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz ankry at green.mif.pg.gda.pl
Wed Sep 15 21:02:35 CEST 2004


=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3_Go=B3aszewski?= wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> > I see in sympa.spec:
> > 
> > /usr/sbin/useradd -u 71 -r -d /home/services/sympa -s /bin/false ...
> >                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > but this directory is nowhere created, so it does not exist. AFAIR it
> > may cause problems while using pwdutils. Is the home directory
> > necessary? Maybe, it should be changed to /usr/share/empty ?
> 
> Long time ago was quarrel with kloczek about that :)
> He wanted "/" as home in that case (like in Solaris).

I found sb prepared %{home_s} macro, probably for this purpose.

> I think that /usr/share/empty is quite good place.
> 
> BTW - there was some time ago reported problem with /usr/share/empty when 
> /usr is mounted via nfs (or something like that) and looses connection.

In ssh. Solved.
PrivSep user is not used when PrivSep is disabled.

But this service (sympa) does not seem to be so critical, I think.

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