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On Sat, 31 May 2003 20:53, Martin Lesser wrote: |
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> I don't see any benefits of developing and/or maintaining a predefined |
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> /etc/passwd with more than exactly one entry for root. |
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agreed, for a source-based distribution its unnecessary. for a binary based |
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distribution, some applications take numeric values at compile-time (qmail |
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comes to mind). no reason they couldn't be patched, though... |
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if there's a table of allocated uids/gids for applications which absolutely |
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need static ones, then there's no need to have this unnecessary crap |
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cluttering up the default /etc/passwd, and Gentoo developers can push out |
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creation of these into the package config part of an ebuild. |
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leon |
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