Eric Herman wrote: > Angel Tsankov wrote: >> In his hint "Package users" Matthias Benkmann recommends to name the >> primary group of a package user after the user name. But why >> duplicate information instead of extending it?! Couldn't we name the > > I continue to find the simple "duplicate info" of user and group to > very practical. > > Having given some thought to what I might want to do with the > opportunity (create sub-groups or whatever), I eventually decided that > there was nothing that was as useful and the simplicity of the same > user and group approach. > > Of course the command line duplication when installing a new package > is irritating, so if you know that's the approach you're going to use, > modify the script to only pass in the variable once. > I'm going to try the idea. Currently I'm installing LFS with pu (package users) along with the idea in question. I haven't encountered any problems till now that may be due this little modification. If I do, I'll probably write back to ask for some help.
> But, probably the most interesting extension of package users that I > feel others might benefit from is an idea I had for dealing with > ldconfig. > > It's quite simple really. Create a special user for ldconfig, and set > the suid bit so any member of the install group can run /sbin/ldconfig > and make sure that /etc/ld.so.cache is owned by the ldconfig user. > (ldconfig is a member of the install group) > Seems to go very well with package users. And saves the trouble of 'su root' to run ldconfig, i.e. makes things even simpler. I think I like it. May be I should try it too. :) --Angel -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
