Re: standardize uid:gid?

2024-01-18 Thread David Chmelik
On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 13:40:01 +0100, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 05:38:37AM -0000, David Chmelik wrote: >> Couldn't Debian standardize uid:gid numbers for daemons? >[...] * Every obscure, niche package's users and groups would have to be >added to every De

standardize uid:gid?

2024-01-17 Thread David Chmelik
Couldn't Debian standardize uid:gid numbers for daemons? The oldest--and only strictly UNIX-like--GNU/Linux (Slackware) does this so if you install multiple instances and want them the same, you can backup /etc/passwd & / etc/group from one and use them on another (as long as there aren't

os-prober detects in wrong order and GRUB doesn't have enough options

2024-01-30 Thread David Chmelik
Earlier this or last year I tried to use Devuan to report os-prober detects in wrong order. It may detect current OS partition first, but if you have more than 10, then it continues from 10, and (if this is all you have) goes to the last in the tens but then continues somewhere in single-