Debian Bug report logs - #370324
Make / etc/courier/authdaemonrc automatically configurable

Package: courier-authdaemon; Maintainer for courier-authdaemon is Soren Stoutner <[email protected]>; Source for courier-authdaemon is src:courier-authlib (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Luk Claes <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 17:03:17 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Blocking fix for 311188: debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" with conffiles of other packages

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>:
Bug#370324; Package courier-authdaemon. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Luk Claes <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luk Claes <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Make / etc/courier/authdaemonrc automatically configurable
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 18:47:12 +0200
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Package: courier-authdaemon
Severity: wishlist

Hi

Automatically configuring courier-authdaemon is not policy compliant for
the moment as one needs to edit the mentioned conffile in the process.

A solution might be to include some file if it exists in
etc/courier/authdaemonrc...

Cheers

Luk

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Blocking bugs added: 370319, 370324, 370332, 370337, 370338, 370339, 370340, 370342, 370343, 370344, 370346, 370347, 370348, 370349, 370350, and 370351 Request was from Luk Claes <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).


Blocking bugs removed: 370319, 370324, 370332, 370337, 370338, 370339, 370340, 370342, 370343, 370344, 370346, 370347, 370348, 370349, 370350, 370351, and 370393 Request was from Luk Claes <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).


Blocking bugs added: 370319, 370324, 370332, 370337, 370338, 370339, 370340, 370342, 370343, 370344, 370346, 370347, 370348, 370349, 370350, 370351, and 370393 Request was from Luk Claes <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to [email protected], Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>:
Bug#370324; Package courier-authdaemon. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Holger Levsen <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #16 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: dear maintainer, please comment...
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:32:55 +0200
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Hi Stefan,

could you please comment on this bug? It's really important for us to fix 
#311188 for Lenny, so that upgrades from Lenny to Lenny+1 will work without 
problems for Debian Edu installations.

Thank you.


regards,
	Holger
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Information forwarded to [email protected], Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>:
Bug#370324; Package courier-authdaemon. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Stefan Hornburg <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #21 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefan Hornburg <[email protected]>
To: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#370324: dear maintainer, please comment...
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:39:53 +0200
Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> could you please comment on this bug? It's really important for us to fix 
> #311188 for Lenny, so that upgrades from Lenny to Lenny+1 will work without 
> problems for Debian Edu installations.

What variables in /etc/courier/authdaemonrc do you need to change?

Regards
        Racke



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Information forwarded to [email protected], Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>:
Bug#370324; Package courier-authdaemon. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Holger Levsen <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #26 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>
To: Undisclosed.Recipients: ;
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#370324: dear maintainer, please comment...
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:53:56 +0200
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Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your feedback! (And sorry for not stating the obvious earlier :)

On Monday 07 April 2008 12:39, you wrote:
> What variables in /etc/courier/authdaemonrc do you need to change?

I've attached the cfengine file we use to modify the configuration. IMHO 
cfengine syntax is straightforward to read and understand, if you do have any 
question, please dont hesitate to ask, I'll happily explain every line if you 
want me to :-)

(As I am the one wanting something from you. But I'm quite sure you can easily 
figure it. But then, I do know cfengine since 7 years, so I might be 
biased ;)


regards,
	Holger
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Information forwarded to [email protected], Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>:
Bug#370324; Package courier-authdaemon. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #31 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <[email protected]>
To: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#370324: dear maintainer, please comment...
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:39:59 +0200
Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> Thanks for your feedback! (And sorry for not stating the obvious earlier :)
> 
> On Monday 07 April 2008 12:39, you wrote:
>> What variables in /etc/courier/authdaemonrc do you need to change?
> 
> I've attached the cfengine file we use to modify the configuration. IMHO 
> cfengine syntax is straightforward to read and understand, if you do have any 
> question, please dont hesitate to ask, I'll happily explain every line if you 
> want me to :-)
> 
> (As I am the one wanting something from you. But I'm quite sure you can easily 
> figure it. But then, I do know cfengine since 7 years, so I might be 
> biased ;)

OK, my approach would be to include a file authdaemonrc.local at the end
of authdaemonrc (if it exists). The same for the other files like authldaprc.
What do you think about it?

Regards
	Racke

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Information forwarded to [email protected], Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>:
Bug#370324; Package courier-authdaemon. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Holger Levsen <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #36 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#370324: dear maintainer, please comment...
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:07:33 +0200
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Hi Stefan,

On Monday 07 April 2008 20:39, you wrote:
> OK, my approach would be to include a file authdaemonrc.local at the end
> of authdaemonrc (if it exists). The same for the other files like
> authldaprc. What do you think about it?

Sounds good to me, esp. that you consider doing it for them all :)

Those are bash/perl/whatever scripts, so that variables defined in *.local 
overwrite the others?


regards,
	Holger
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Information forwarded to [email protected], Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>:
Bug#370324; Package courier-authdaemon. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Holger Levsen <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #41 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: any news?
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 13:29:43 +0200
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Hi Stefan,

the Lenny freeze is approaching fast, any ETA when you will be able to fix 
this bug? We would really love to see it fixed in Lenny... also please shout 
if you need help...


regards,
	Holger
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Information forwarded to [email protected], Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>:
Bug#370324; Package courier-authdaemon. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #46 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <[email protected]>
To: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#370324: any news?
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 10:33:45 +0200
Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> the Lenny freeze is approaching fast, any ETA when you will be able to fix 
> this bug? We would really love to see it fixed in Lenny... also please shout 
> if you need help...
> 

Shout :-). I guess that all we need is a patch to include a file authdaemonrc.local at the end
of authdaemonrc (if it exists) and a short note for the README.Debian.

Regards
	Racke

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Information forwarded to [email protected], Markus Wanner <[email protected]>:
Bug#370324; Package courier-authdaemon. (Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:54:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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Message #51 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Soren Stoutner <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Make / etc/courier/authdaemonrc automatically configurable
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:51:11 -0700
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I have just taken over maintaining courier-authdaemon.  I 
see this very old bug from the lenny transition.  I assume 
this has already been dealt with, but if not, can you confirm 
this bug still exits in the current version of courier-
authdaemon?

-- 
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[email protected]
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Message #59 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#370324: Make / etc/courier/authdaemonrc automatically configurable
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:57:44 +0000
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 03:51:11PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> I have just taken over maintaining courier-authdaemon.  I 
> see this very old bug from the lenny transition.  I assume 
> this has already been dealt with, but if not, can you confirm 
> this bug still exits in the current version of courier-
> authdaemon?

I don't think this has been dealt with, as the bug is still open. :)


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Information forwarded to [email protected]:
Bug#370324; Package courier-authdaemon. (Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:51:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Soren Stoutner <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. (Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:51:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #64 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Soren Stoutner <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], Holger Levsen <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#370324: Make / etc/courier/authdaemonrc automatically configurable
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:01 -0700
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On Tuesday, February 18, 2025 4:57:44 AM MST Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 03:51:11PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > I have just taken over maintaining courier-authdaemon.  I
> > see this very old bug from the lenny transition.  I assume
> > this has already been dealt with, but if not, can you confirm
> > this bug still exits in the current version of courier-
> > authdaemon?
> 
> I don't think this has been dealt with, as the bug is still open. :)

I guess I need some help to understand the scope of this bug report.  The original email 
states:

"Automatically configuring courier-authdaemon is not policy compliant for
the moment as one needs to edit the mentioned conffile in the process.”

1.  In my case, I am running courier-authdaemon without modifying /etc/courier/
authdaemonrc.  However, your scenario might be different, in which case I would like to 
understand it.

2.  There are a lot of packages that require modifying config files before they function 
correctly, so I don’t understand what would make this not policy compliant even it were 
the case.

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