On Fri, Aug 19, 2005, Doug Summers wrote: >I need to move the 3 Openpkg ID's from 1000-1002 to 700-702 (names are >staying the same). Will this cause a problem down the road when I build >new packages? Obviously I need to change all of the UID's but I'm >concerned new package builds will use the old UID's and not the new ones.
I don't think that's an issue as all references to these are by name, not by uid/gid. One consideration though is when changing the uid/gid of installed packages, if you have any setuid or setgid programs, running on a resonably secure version if *nix, the setuid or setgid bits will be cleared when the ownership is changed. To preserve these, you need to stat() the original file to get the mode, then do a chmod() after the chown(). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.'' -Thomas Jefferson ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
