On Sun, 2 May 2010 23:57:53 +0200
Enrico Weigelt <weig...@metux.de> wrote:

> * Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> schrieb:
> 
> > Except as stated they are not fixed (as Fabian pointed out).  I'm
> > happy to support something like setting ROOT_UID and ROOT_GID in
> > gentoo-x86 profiles and using those.  Then if you want to do
> > something utterly ridiculous to your system you can just set the
> > appropriate variables.
> 
> ACK. But it should also be possible to specify names here 
> (not just numerical IDs), just in case the underlying kernel
> doesnt have numerical UIDs at all ...

Most tools which would use these variables (chown, find, install)
support both numerical UIDs and usernames passed in the same way.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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