[Mageia-dev] coreutils runuser pam config (aka cyrus-imapd refuses to start on mga2).

[Colin Guthrie]

@tmb: ping! As you are maintainer I don't want to push this without your
ACK.

Col

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 04/06/12 10:50 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
> 
> After upgrading one of my machines to Mageia 2 I noticed an error
> running cyrus imapd.
> 
> In the systemd version it runs a file before executing the daemon:
> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyr_systemd_helper start
> 
> This script (stolen from fedora) uses the "runuser" command from
> coreutils. While I'm not sure I fully appreciate the difference between
> runuser vs. "su -c" we do provide the utility, and thus IMO it should work!
> 
> I've applied the same pam configs as fedora use to our coreutils package
> here:
> 
> Can someone review? I've tested that that putting these files on my mga2
> box makes cyrus-imapd run fine.
> 
> So if this is OK, it needs to be pushed as an update to Mga2. I'll do
> that once the maintainer (tmb) ACKs it.



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