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Bug#3036: automatic adduser/addgroup in postinst (was Re: fingerd)



>>>>> "RM" == Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu> writes:

RM> Except it does lookups at compile time (look at printuids, and look in
RM> Makefile for auto-uids.h:)

RM> Routines which use the compile time lookup are qmail-check,
RM> qmail-lspawn, qmail-queue, qmail-setup, qmail-start, and maybe
RM> qmail-rspawn (I've not read the source closely enough to find out).

Wouldn't it be possible to put those routines into a shared library
which get's created at installation time? Or, if dynamical linking
opens other security holes, provide a partially linked binary. During
the installation, compile the missing routines and link the binaries.

			cheers,
				Lukas
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