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From: Maxim Kammerer <mk@×××.su>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser: home beloning $user:root inset of $user:$group
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:19:24
Message-Id: CAHsXYDCP-sGR6U-pNOnWNA8v-=ho9mubQ+r78E8cUxybBDZ88w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] enewuser: home beloning $user:root inset of $user:$group by Michael Weber
1 On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote:
2 > is it intentional behavior, that home directories created by enewuser
3 > belong to $user:root (or pwd group) instead of $user:$group ?
4
5 This seems like the result of a hasty bugfix to me:
6 https://bugs.gentoo.org/23627
7 http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/eutils.eclass?r1=1.36&r2=1.37
8
9 Wrong group ownership shouldn't matter much, since ebuilds should
10 probably explicitly set home directory ownership / permissions with
11 fowners / fperms anyway (in src_install()). However, that doesn't work
12 due to:
13 https://bugs.gentoo.org/396153
14
15 Having a switch for enewuser to skip creating home directory would
16 solve the issue for majority of usecases, but a request I opened was
17 resolved as a duplicate of the bug above (which I don't expect to be
18 resolved anytime soon):
19 https://bugs.gentoo.org/395961
20
21 --
22 Maxim Kammerer
23 Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

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