Re: cyrus21: password and login shell?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Bengt Thure'e wrote:
> I have just installed and started to verify my Sarge installation,
> and to my surprise I found (or rather "John" did) that cyrus has a 
> password and seems to be a login account.
> 
> Seems to be the same in both Sarge as well as in Woody.

>From the package's postinst:

        echo "Creating/updating cyrus user account..."
        adduser --system --ingroup mail --home /var/spool/cyrus \
           --shell /bin/sh --disabled-password \
           --gecos "Cyrus Mailsystem User"  cyrus >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
           if getent passwd | grep -s -q -E '^cyrus:'; then
                   echo "Non-system user cyrus found. I will not overwrite a non-system" >&2
                   echo "user. Remove the user and reinstall cyrus21-common." >&2
                   exit 1
           fi
           # unknown adduser error, simply exit
           exit 1
        }


That is not going to add a password for user cyrus.  Maybe you had a
_system_ cyrus user already, that had a password ?

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