Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:31:09 GMT From: Stefan Lasiewski <slasiewski@lbl.gov> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/170280: mail/mailman reports incorrect value for MM_USERID Message-ID: <201207301831.q6UIV9o3047696@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201207301840.q6UIe9Um062985@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 170280
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: mail/mailman reports incorrect value for MM_USERID
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 30 18:40:09 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Stefan Lasiewski
>Release: 9.0-RELEASE-p3
>Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
>Environment:
FreeBSD host.nersc.gov 9.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Jun 12 02:52:29 UTC 2012 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
I am building mail/mailman from ports. I need to override the default User ID and Group ID for the Mailman user.
mail/mailman automatically assigns MM_USERID=91 to the mailman user, and then uses the value of MM_USERID to set the value for MM_GROUPID.
[root@host /usr/ports/mail/mailman]# grep USERID Makefile
MM_USERID?= 91
MM_GROUPID?= ${MM_USERID}
@${ECHO} "MM_USERID=91 The user ID of the Mailman user."
@${ECHO} "MM_GROUPID=MM_USERID The group ID for the Mailman user."
My environment already has a user with the UID=91 and GID=91. I need to set a different UID and GID for the Mailman user.
However, when I use standard methods to override the value in the Makefile [1], make appears to ignore this value and reports the wrong value. This is misleading and should be fixed:
[root@host /usr/ports/mail/mailman]# make MM_USERID=501
===> License GPLv2 accepted by the user
===> Found saved configuration for mailman-2.1.14_6
You may change the following build options:
MM_USERNAME=mailman The username of the Mailman user.
MM_USERID=91 The user ID of the Mailman user.
MM_GROUPNAME=mailman The group to which the Mailman user will belong.
MM_GROUPID=MM_USERID The group ID for the Mailman user.
MM_DIR=mailman Mailman will be installed in /usr/local/mailman.
CGI_GID=www The group name or id under which your web server executes CGI scripts.
IMGDIR=www/icons Icon images will be installed in /usr/local/www/icons.
I also tried adding `MM_USERID=501` to /etc/make.conf, as suggested at [2], but make still says `MM_USERID=91`.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2826029/passing-additional-variables-from-command-line-to-make
[2] http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/Etc/make.conf
>How-To-Repeat:
1. cd /usr/ports/mail/mailman
2. Try to change the UID for 'mailman' using `make MM_USERID=501`
3. Look in the log and notice now Make still reports 'MM_USERID=91'.
>Fix:
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