Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:35:41 GMT From: Scott Balmos <scott.balmos@utoledo.edu> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/77367: sympa account creation patch Message-ID: <200502102335.j1ANZfvL075168@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200502102340.j1ANeOOx079723@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 77367
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: sympa account creation patch
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 10 23:40:24 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Scott Balmos
>Release: 5.3-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD flyingpig.simunex.com 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #5: Fri Nov 12 16:52:26 EST 2004 sbalmos@flyingpig.simunex.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FLYINGPIG i386
>Description:
The port of sympa (mail/sympa) creates a user account and group, sympa/sympa, for the Sympa system to run under. However, the port creates a user with a uid/gid of 1025, not with a uid normally reserved in the "system account" space (uid/gid <1000). This can be annoying to systems set up with user account managers that do not use pw and /etc/master.password, and are shared across multiple servers (e.g. LDAP).
It would be better if the sympa user was created using an explicit "system account" uid/gid, such as uid/gid 200 (which doesn't seem to be used by any port that I know of).
>How-To-Repeat:
Load a fresh FreeBSD box. Create a few normal user accounts (e.g. ones that are auto-assigned uid's, incrementing starting from uid 1000).
Install mail/sympa somewhere along the line.
pw usershow sympa and pw groupshow sympa. The assigned uid/gid is 1025, which is in normal user account uid/gid space.
>Fix:
Explicitly assign uid/gid 200 to sympa. This would also update Sect. 17.12 of the Porter's Handbook.
--- /usr/ports/mail/sympa/pkg-install Wed Oct 27 11:57:50 2004
+++ pkg-install Thu Feb 10 18:24:58 2005
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
USER=sympa
GROUP=${USER}
-UID=1025
+UID=200
GID=${UID}
if ! pw groupshow "${GROUP}" 2>/dev/null 1>&2; then
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