Bug#330522: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#330522: fetchmail: don't hide errors in postinst

Nico Golde nico at ngolde.de
Thu Sep 29 12:22:15 UTC 2005


tags 330522 + pending
Hi Lars,
* Lars Wirzenius <liw at iki.fi> [2005-09-29 11:13]:
> Package: fetchmail
> Version: 6.2.5-18
> 
> The fetchmail postinst script contains the following:
> 
> adduser --system --ingroup nogroup --home /var/run/fetchmail \
>         --shell /bin/sh --disabled-password fetchmail >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
> true
> 
> 
> If the adduser command fails, this manages to hide the fact from the
> sysadmin. This is not good.

Thanks fixed in svn.
Regards Nico
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