Peter Ford wrote:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Bowie Bailey writes:
> > 
> > > > I built courier 0.47 (my current mail server is running that
> > > > still) and I'm sure I recall the docs saying something about a
> > > > configure option for the uid and gid, but I don't see it in the
> > > > Installation Guide for the current version.
> > > 
> > > There are configuration options '--with-mailuser=courier
> > 
> > No, there is no such configuration option for Courier that's
> > documented in Courier 0.52's INSTALL file.  There was such an
> > option in earlier versions of Courier, but that function has been
> > moved to the courier-authlib package. 

Oops.  I guess I missed that change.  I thought the options were still
there and the default was to use the courier-authlib settings.

> Does that mean that the user and group IDs depend on how
> courier-authlib was installed? That might be the problem.
> Trustix provides a courier-authlib package which I used, but I will
> read the manual there and see what user ID it actually sets itself up
> with. Might be better to build courier-authlib from scratch anyway...

It's always a bad idea to use a supplied rpm for one package and a
custom build for another package when they are as tightly integrated as
this.

-- 
Bowie


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