[debian-edu-commits] [Git][debian-edu/debian-edu-config][master] run-at-firstboot: Initialize first user's mailbox only when logging into Main-Server

[Mike Gabriel (@sunweaver)]

Mike Gabriel pushed to branch master at Debian Edu / debian-edu-config


Commits:
a6cd1123 by Mike Gabriel at 2026-09-04T21:27:45+00:00
run-at-firstboot: Initialize first user's mailbox only when logging into Main-Server

- - - - -


1 changed file:

- share/debian-edu-config/tools/run-at-firstboot


Changes:

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share/debian-edu-config/tools/run-at-firstboot
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@@ -122,10 +122,11 @@ fi
 # Send mail to the first user to avoid the Dovecot permission pitfall
 # also in this special case. It doesn't seem to work during installation,
 # because Exim4 needs to grab information from LDAP which fails at that time.
-FIRSTUSER=$(grep -1 first-user-name /var/cache/debconf/config.dat | grep Value | cut -d' ' -f2)
+if echo "$PROFILE" | grep -q Main-Server ; then
+	FIRSTUSER=$(grep -1 first-user-name /var/cache/debconf/config.dat | grep Value | cut -d' ' -f2)
 
-if [ ! -d /var/mail/"$FIRSTUSER" ] ; then
-    cat << EOF | /usr/lib/sendmail $FIRSTUSER
+	if [ ! -d /var/mail/"$FIRSTUSER" ] ; then
+	    cat << EOF | /usr/lib/sendmail $FIRSTUSER
 Subject: Welcome to the mail-system
 
 Hello $FIRSTUSER,
@@ -135,7 +136,8 @@ welcome to the mail-system.
 (Sent from the Debian Edu first boot script.)
 
 EOF
-	logger -t exim-create-environment -p notice Sent mail to first-user.
+		logger -t exim-create-environment -p notice Sent mail to first-user.
+	fi
 fi
 
 # Create first user's Samba account. The smbpasswd command fails inside d-i



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