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On Friday 30 May 2003 16:03, Martin Lesser wrote: |
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> While writing an ebuild for nullmailer I would like to know how to |
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> determine an unique uid/gid (nullmail/nullmail) which I need in the |
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> script if I don't want to patch the Makefile. |
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> Grepping through other ebuild's I saw that there are several packages |
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> which also use useradd/groupadd with a given id (i.e. postgres=70). |
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> Who assigns these ids used in several other ebuild's where system users |
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> are needed? How can I prevent id collisions without grepping through |
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> other ebuild-files? |
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> Or should I omit defining sys-users with a fixed id given? |
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In principle packages should never depend on any fixed user id. They should |
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look at the passwd database for their uid. The only exception is root which |
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has a predefined userid. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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