Bug#330420: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#330420: login: Breaks system-wide maildir spools

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:
> So, as far as shadow is concerned, the following changes should take
> place:
> 
> -remove "noenv" for login
> -add "session    optional   pam_mail.so standard" for su

Wearing my QA hat, I am not satisfied with that. It is not a comprehensive
fix, and shadow will still violate the principle of least surprise.

IMHO there are two real choices:
 1. REMOVE all login.defs MAIL support altogether, make it PAM.
 2. Restore Maildir support to login.defs MAIL.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh