[Kolab-devel] Suse kolabd patch

[Benoit Mortier]

Le Mercredi 4 Janvier 2006 00:05, Richard Bos a écrit :
> Op dinsdag 3 januari 2006 17:25, schreef Bernhard Reiter:
> > >   Changed most of the users and groups to root, this is a known user
> > >   and it takes care that kolab_bootstrap at least finishes.
> >
> > I am not sure if using "root" for all kolab* users is a good idea,
> > it will has security implications and it will make Kolab Servers
> > harder to maintain on different plattforms.
> >
> > Why not find a compatible way for suse to add the necessary users
> > for "kolab" "kolab-r" and "kolab-n"?
>
> as stated it is done to let kolab_bootstrap reach the end..., so at least
> ldapsearch is doing something.  I just discovered that perl-kolab does
> checks on the existance of kolab(-r/-n) users...  The thing is that I
> don't whether these are needed at all.  Perhaps they can all be replaced
> by users that already exist on the target platform (suse in my case),
> like www, ldap, etc?

that's what i planned doing for the debian packages

> It is very interesting to know, which files/apps should be owned by
> kolab(-r/-n).  Can you say something about that??

i think that there is somthing on the kolab wiki in integration with 
distribution

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