On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, at 5:43 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> But, as I said, using more uids/gids in general means having more
> separation. In general it only increases security, with the caveat
> that it does potentially make auditing more complex.
>
Android's security model is uid per app. This
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:18 PM james wrote:
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> On 6/26/20 4:40 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > Removing the group doesn't actually make things more secure, because
> > processes can use a gid even if it doesn't exist in /etc/groups.
> > Effectively any POSIX system has every uid/gid available even
On 6/26/20 4:40 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 4:03 PM james wrote:
So can some of the smarter (gentoo) folks illuminate how to totally
avoid groups and users, except for the minimum required, application
specific? For example like serial line tools, or outline a set of
On 6/26/20 4:36 PM, Jack wrote:
On 2020.06.26 16:03, james wrote:
On 6/26/20 12:38 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
On 6/20/20 7:04 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
Thanks for filing the bug.
Gah! I forgot about this!
I filed a bug now, I hope I made it clear enough. Others can pipe in
there with
On 2020-06-26 16:03, james wrote:
>
> BEFORE I contribute to this bug,
The bug is already fixed in a newer version of portage =)
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 4:03 PM james wrote:
>
> So can some of the smarter (gentoo) folks illuminate how to totally
> avoid groups and users, except for the minimum required, application
> specific? For example like serial line tools, or outline a set of
> tweaks/setting to avoid these
On 2020.06.26 16:03, james wrote:
On 6/26/20 12:38 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
On 6/20/20 7:04 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
Thanks for filing the bug.
Gah! I forgot about this!
I filed a bug now, I hope I made it clear enough. Others can pipe in
there with comments if they like.
I did
On 26 June 2020 22:03:35 CEST, james wrote:
>On 6/26/20 12:38 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>> On 6/20/20 7:04 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
>>> Thanks for filing the bug.
>>
>> Gah! I forgot about this!
>>
>> I filed a bug now, I hope I made it clear enough. Others can pipe in
>> there with comments
On 6/26/20 12:38 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
On 6/20/20 7:04 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
Thanks for filing the bug.
Gah! I forgot about this!
I filed a bug now, I hope I made it clear enough. Others can pipe in
there with comments if they like.
I did indicate the two potential proposals to
On 6/20/20 7:04 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
Thanks for filing the bug.
Gah! I forgot about this!
I filed a bug now, I hope I made it clear enough. Others can pipe in
there with comments if they like.
I did indicate the two potential proposals to correct the issue in the
bug itself.
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 10:04 PM William Kenworthy wrote:
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> I cant see any
> advantage to having multiple ebuilds for a package instead of using a
> support framework to deal with it other than exposing multiple
> opportunities for things to go wrong and make it harder to fix. This not
> an
On 6/20/20 7:04 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
On 21/6/20 9:40 am, Daniel Frey wrote:
On 6/20/20 6:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:06 PM Daniel Frey wrote:
Maybe when I have a moment I'll file a bug.
Dan
Thanks for filing the bug. One of my pet peeves is that the
On 21/6/20 9:40 am, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 6/20/20 6:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:06 PM Daniel Frey wrote:
>
> Maybe when I have a moment I'll file a bug.
>
> Dan
>
Thanks for filing the bug. One of my pet peeves is that the last few
years gentoo has been going down
On 6/20/20 6:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:06 PM Daniel Frey wrote:
You just pointed out the ambiguity.
Emerging a package solely by its name worked 99.9% of the time before
this change.
Now new users get the fun of "Gee, which one is the one I actually
want?" MythTV
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:06 PM Daniel Frey wrote:
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> You just pointed out the ambiguity.
>
> Emerging a package solely by its name worked 99.9% of the time before
> this change.
>
> Now new users get the fun of "Gee, which one is the one I actually
> want?" MythTV is a fairly clear one to
On Sunday, June 21, 2020 9:25:38 A.M. AEST Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 2020-06-20 19:06, Daniel Frey wrote:
> > I understand the dependencies problem that they were trying to solve,
> > but I don't think the way it was implemented is a great one.
>
> This isn't a fundamental problem, it's your
* Daniel Frey:
> You just pointed out the ambiguity.
I did no such thing, and there is no ambiguity. There is only the
failure to specify a package's identifier ("atom").
> Emerging a package solely by its name worked 99.9% of the time before
> this change.
Perhaps for the packages you used; I
On 2020-06-20 19:06, Daniel Frey wrote:
>
> I understand the dependencies problem that they were trying to solve,
> but I don't think the way it was implemented is a great one.
>
This isn't a fundamental problem, it's your package manager being dumb.
File a bug; I can think of several
On 6/20/20 11:56 AM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
* Daniel Frey:
I went to emerge mythtv (I think) and now it says it's an ambiguous
requests with *both* the group and user of the same name.
You need to emerge "media-tv/mythtv", not just "mythtv". Nothing
ambiguous about it.
Further reading:
* Daniel Frey:
> I went to emerge mythtv (I think) and now it says it's an ambiguous
> requests with *both* the group and user of the same name.
You need to emerge "media-tv/mythtv", not just "mythtv". Nothing
ambiguous about it.
Further reading: https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0081.html
On 6/19/20 9:04 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Inquiring minds want to know. What exactly do they accomplish,
besides cluttering up a database somewhere?
It's not the cluttering of databases that bother me, it's the creation
of many ambiguous requests now. I went to emerge mythtv (I think) and
How do unsubscrip from all
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Walter Dnes wrote:
> Inquiring minds want to know. What exactly do they accomplish,
> besides cluttering up a database somewhere?
>
I found this:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Categories_acct-group_and_acct-user
Dale
:-) :-)
Inquiring minds want to know. What exactly do they accomplish,
besides cluttering up a database somewhere?
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
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