Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Sven Rebhan <odinshorse@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] emerge --root : users not created
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:32:13
Message-Id: 3dc1583f0912142331i7b439db6qfcb10bd92ac35c88@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] emerge --root : users not created by Peter Stuge
1 2009/12/14 Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>:
2 > The password db abstraction does allow easy changing of the file
3 > names, but home directory, skel directory, mail spool and probably
4 > more should also be changed, so maybe it makes sense to simply have
5 > useradd call chroot() according to an option early on in main()?
6
7 This might be an option. However, I do not know if there are certain
8 security implications that come up with this change!? The best would
9 be to discuss this upstream first.
10
11 Sven