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From: "Michał Górny" <gentoo@××××××××××.pl>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 07:30:18
Message-Id: 20100503093108.0dc0bef7@pomiot.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names by Enrico Weigelt
1 On Sun, 2 May 2010 23:57:53 +0200
2 Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote:
3
4 > * Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> schrieb:
5 >
6 > > Except as stated they are not fixed (as Fabian pointed out). I'm
7 > > happy to support something like setting ROOT_UID and ROOT_GID in
8 > > gentoo-x86 profiles and using those. Then if you want to do
9 > > something utterly ridiculous to your system you can just set the
10 > > appropriate variables.
11 >
12 > ACK. But it should also be possible to specify names here
13 > (not just numerical IDs), just in case the underlying kernel
14 > doesnt have numerical UIDs at all ...
15
16 Most tools which would use these variables (chown, find, install)
17 support both numerical UIDs and usernames passed in the same way.
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny
22
23 <http://mgorny.alt.pl>
24 <xmpp:mgorny@××××××.ru>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>