Re: Majordomo package
Bill Mitchell writes:
>Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>
>> Majordomo requires its own user and group (typically `majordom'.)
>> [...] it would seem sensible to come up
>> with a policy which results on their being the same on all Debian
>> systems. (They don't have to be present everywhere, just reserved for
>> Majordomo.)
>
>Why? What's the benefit vs. using whatever adduser assigns?
It reduces complexity. `Virgin' Majordomo assumes it knows its uids
at a numeric level - these get compiled in. Adding code to look them
up is trivial, and indeed I've already done it; but this seems to me
to be overengineering the problem of porting Majordomo to Debian.
Having a fixed uid and gid keeps things *simple*. It means we don't
even have to think about possible problems with these ids being
different on different machines - we can just be 100% certain they
don't apply to us.
One could ask Bill's question about the uucp user and group, yet many
systems may never use it. I think the same arguments apply either
way.
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