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On Friday 30 May 2003 17:18, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> > In principle packages should never depend on any fixed user id. |
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> > They should look at the passwd database for their uid. The only |
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> > exception is root which has a predefined userid. |
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> I believe that Mr. Lesser is asking how one decides on uid/gid's |
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> for new packages that should run as something other than root. |
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> (For example, apache runs as apache.apache, which maps to uid=81 |
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> and gid=81, and those numbers are defined in the /etc/passwd file |
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> that's part of baselayout.) |
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How about fixing the system? For example something like this: |
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useradd foo |
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FOO_UID=`awk -F: '$1 == "foo" {printf $3}' /etc/passwd` |
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FOO_GID=`awk -F: '$1 == "foo" {printf $4}' /etc/passwd` |
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I've just started at trying to make ebuilds but I suppose this could |
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be put somewhere in an eclass. |
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