as an example, if I want to create a SMF entry for a daemon.
To run the daemon with a specific, non-provileged userid, a
separate user has to be created and the name will be stored
in a SMF-propery.
How should a SFE package behave at pkgadd:
1) if the userid is missing, just create it with useradd
and let solaris choose the next free numeric ID
or
2) ask the user about the username / userid
or
3) provide a script, to be edited by the user after
pkginstall and run manually
no SMF property would be created, user has to read
SFE<package>-README/INSTALL files
or
4) choose e.g. nobody and let the user change this
in SMF, chown files if already created by the daemon
(logs, databases, ...)
I would like to do 1) as many (all?) distros do. If an
Administrator does not want the generated userid, he can
create it before pkgadd.
What do you think?
Thomas
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