Re: [gentoo-dev] passwd and group files in new baselayout

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Will Rogers wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I didn't get any answer for this in the user list, so I'll try it here.
> It's a little more dev-related anyway.
>
> I just merged the new baselayout package, and I have one question:
>
> The new /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow files have some
> different id numbers for different accounts, and one that I added myself
> (postdrop) is now included, but with a different id than I used.  Should
> I make an effort to change to these new ids, or it not matter?  That is,
> do ebuilds assume certain a uid or gid when installing a package?
>

To my knowledge (I'm not a gentoo developer), the packages depend on names
only. One can never know for most id's what number they have. Your
filesystem does depend on numbers though. This means it is probably the
best solution give your postdrop the same uid it had before things got
changed. If you fear problems with what's installed now, you can also run
a chown on all files that should belong to postdrop.

Good luck,

ps. Root and nobody/nogroup should keep their id's (0 and 99). Those are
standard

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