On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 04:30:59PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > My best guess is that Wietse will likely adopt something functionally
> > equivalent wrt the compile-time override for DEF_MAIL_OWNER and
> > DEF_SGID_GROUP.
>
> No override is needed.
>
> You can trivially set these at installation time:
>
> # make install mail_owner=foo setgid_group=bar ...
> # make upgrade mail_owner=foo setgid_group=bar ...
Yes, this is an option.
It applies to all parameters other than "config_directory", and yet
we have compile-time overrides for most installation parameters to
enable more natural defaults. The "mail_owner" and "setgid_group"
installation parameters are included in the list of parameters
explicitly defined in the target main.cf by "postfix-install". When
I build a test version to run out of /var/tmp/postfix, creat an
empty main.cf file and run "make upgrade" I get:
/var/tmp/postfix/etc/main.cf:
readme_directory = /var/tmp/postfix/readme
sample_directory = /var/tmp/postfix/etc
sendmail_path = /var/tmp/postfix/sbin/sendmail
html_directory = /var/tmp/postfix/html
setgid_group = _postdrop
command_directory = /var/tmp/postfix/sbin
manpage_directory = /var/tmp/postfix/man
daemon_directory = /var/tmp/postfix/libexec
newaliases_path = /var/tmp/postfix/sbin/newaliases
mailq_path = /var/tmp/postfix/sbin/mailq
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
mail_owner = _postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
in which all the installation parameters aside from mail_owner and
setgid_group allow compile-time overrides.
I think it would be more consistent to also allow mail_owner and
setgid_group to have appropriate compile-time defaults for the
target platform whether installing locally, or building packages.
That said, the OP can of course make do with run-time overrides
if that's the only choice.
--
Viktor.
