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authorRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2013-02-24 01:21:24 -0600
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2013-02-24 10:23:10 -0600
commit9a0c15a041ea50a4bea42e6c59f391523b4e9b78 (patch)
tree6d9e8909476f0f96b2329cd35f51f7f4208b6b7b /network/dovecot
parent386f5baf605497862c68ac9b96a8b854cdefc409 (diff)
network/dovecot: Noted dovenull user/group requirements
Thanks to Niki Kovacs for pointing out our omission and starting a nice discussion on the mailing list :-) Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'network/dovecot')
-rw-r--r--network/dovecot/README6
-rw-r--r--network/dovecot/dovecot.SlackBuild6
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/network/dovecot/README b/network/dovecot/README
index ea7c968be5e5c..85a6336b06e4c 100644
--- a/network/dovecot/README
+++ b/network/dovecot/README
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ This script builds dovecot with support for SSL. As such, you must have
openssl installed - openssl-solibs is not enough in itself to meet this
requirement. Additionally, dovecot will be compiled with POP3 support.
-You should create a dovecot user to run the login processes on your server.
-Something like this should work:
+You should create users and groups for dovecot and dovenull to run the
+login processes on your server. Something like this should work:
[root@host] # groupadd -g 202 dovecot
[root@host] # useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -u 202 -g 202 dovecot
+[root@host] # groupadd -g 248 dovenull
+[root@host] # useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -u 248 -g 248 dovenull
From the dovecot-new release posting comes this word of advice:
Remember to read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 before
diff --git a/network/dovecot/dovecot.SlackBuild b/network/dovecot/dovecot.SlackBuild
index bfda4ddce3a36..50d9989a16252 100644
--- a/network/dovecot/dovecot.SlackBuild
+++ b/network/dovecot/dovecot.SlackBuild
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
PRGNAM=dovecot
VERSION=${VERSION:-2.1.10}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
@@ -39,9 +39,11 @@ PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
bailout() {
- echo " You must have a dovecot user and group to build and/or use dovecot:"
+ echo " You must have both dovecot and dovenull users and groups:"
echo " # groupadd -g 202 dovecot"
echo " # useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -u 202 -g 202 dovecot"
+ echo " # groupadd -g 248 dovenull"
+ echo " # useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -u 248 -g 248 dovenull"
exit 1
}