On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:49:50PM -0400, Ed McMan wrote: > Monday, June 9, 2003, 3:30:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (debian-mentors) wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:11:59 -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Well, you could do the chown at install time inside the postinst. > > >That should solve the problem nicely. > > > Which is what my package already does, but it does not even build > > with the account not present. I am very unsure about handling this. > > If you are chowning in postinst anyway, can't you just change the > package to compile with say, nobody as the user?
The nobody user should never own any files. root would do, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
