Re: Weird conffile case
Dariusz Dwornikowski <dariusz.dwornikowski@cs.put.poznan.pl> writes:
> The previous maintainer of maradns modified conffiles in postinst
> (dynamically checked for the maradns user id and filled
> /etc/maradns/mararc with this info). This obviously rendered RC bug of
> violation of policy 10.7.3 [2]. I closed the bug in a new release by not
> modifying the config and leaving the user to do it, informing her/him
> with a appropriate message with a user id to fill in.
Does maradns require that the user ID be specified as a UID? Why doesn't
it support specifying the ID as a name (which it would then turn into a
UID via getpwnam)? Then you wouldn't have to modify the configuration
file.
If it doesn't support names now, could that be added? It might be a
fairly simple patch, a few lines at most.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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