On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
> This could lead to security problems.
Yes, I stipulated that.
> Although I really would prefer that people who are building from source pay
> attention to things like the handbook section on what to do when building
> from source:
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Gregory Neil Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: .if !defined(NO_SENDMAIL)
: mtree -deU -f ${.CURDIR}/mtree/sendmail.root.dist -p ${DESTDIR}/
: .endif
Wow! I hadn't read this before making my suggestion. Honest :-)
I like his solution.
Warne
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Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: 2. Users who don't read (or don't understand) UPDATING. This is basically,
: everybody.
Actually, UPDATING was changed last night to be more explicit about
what to do. Let's give that a chance. I don't like th
DougB> My proposal is simple. Change from using names to numeric [ug]id's
DougB> in mtree, and elsewhere if needed. The plus is that it solves the
DougB> bootstrapping problem. The negatives involve problems with systems
DougB> that don't merge the password and group files, and therefore will
Doug
While I do not object to the addition of the new users for
sendmail, and I understand the theory of having them own directories for
its operation, I think that the current bootstrapping problems are
creating too greate a barrier for users who upgrade from source. There are
(at least) two g
