[Pgreet-users] Quotes on pgreet UID and GID turn user into root.

[Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...>]

Dear Penguin Greetings users,

 The Installer with the 0.9.0 version of Penguin Greetings is leaving
quotes around the UID and GID numbers in the pgreet.conf file as shown in
example below:

    ### User and group to be used to send email (IMPORTANT!)
    # User ID for user to send email if not overridden.
    pgreet_uid = '521',

    # Group ID for files to be sent later for email.
    pgreet_gid = '230',

The Perl functions that assign the group and user reads this as a string
and sadly converts the string into a zero which is root user. As a
result, email is still sent out, but sent out as root instead of user pgreet.

The solution is simple. Just remove the single quotes (and the typo
comma) and then Penguin Greetings will use your own user as intended. You
may need to change the ownership of files which have been created as root
instead of pgreet.

Apologies for the inconvenience,

Peace, Edouard

P.S. For more information on known bugs, please check the bug tracker on
the  Penguin Greetings SourceForge site:  <http://sourceforge.net/
tracker/?atid=536272&group_id=72964&func=browse>

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Edouard Lagache
Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings
http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/
pgr...@ca...