please add `enewuser` and `enewgroup` to the sendmail ebuilds so we can remove them from baselayout's passwd/group i'm looking at the smmsp user/group here
sendmail-8.13.4-r1 does that (marked unstable waiting for mailer-config stuff)
This could help with the mailman package, bug 114889. The other bug is related to the problem that occurs when the user and group are not obvious. Nowhere does the sendmail ebuild configure sendmail.mc/cf to use any user or groups. I checked my fedora core sendmail.cf and it uses this option: O DefaultUser=8:12 grepping for them in passwd and group give this: /etc/passwd:mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false /etc/group:mail::12:mail Per the original request, I would recommmend the user and group commands be added to the ebuild: enewuser mail 8 [other options as appropriate] enewgroup mail 12 If other uid/gid values are more compatible with future standard compliance efforts then code could be added to the ebuild to update the DefaultUser value at install time.
this has been fixed for some time in latest ebuilds
