Headsup on feature removal

Alessio Cecchi alessio at skye.it
Thu Mar 19 13:24:29 EET 2020


Il 19/03/20 02:01, John Stoffel ha scritto:
> Alessio> ### user_query for vpopmail
> Alessio> user_query = SELECT pw_dir AS home, 89 AS uid, 89 AS gid,
> Alessio> concat('*:backend=', pw_shell) AS quota_rule FROM vpopmail
> Alessio> WHERE pw_name = '%n' AND pw_domain = '%d'
>
> Careful!  You need to explain that 89 is the UID and GID of the
> vpopmail user account?  Or some other account?  I don't use either of
> these auth methods, but this just struck me a a little magical.

Hi John,

what you said is true but historically in vpopmail environments uid and 
gid are usually hardcoded at 89

Anyone can check their uid and gid with "id vpopmail" command from shell 
and update as necessary.

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Alessio Cecchi
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