Chris Staub wrote:
> Matt Darcy wrote:
>> 3.) users and group creation, I'm reluctant to touch on this again as
>> I know its close to a few individuals hearts and a lot of time has
>> been put into this, but due to the ude discussion I think its worth at
>> least touching upon.
>> a.) do we define uuid/gid for users in LFS - I don't think this is an
>> option and has to be done
>> b.) how does blfs address this, does it specify uid/gid per user, does
>> it speficy users and let the user map the uid/gid - does it do nothing
>> and just you need an "X" user with X permissions
>> c.) how do the uid's/gid's tie in with udev rules ? for all projects
>> d.) do all projects use a unifrorm set of uid/gids and if so -how to
>> we acomplish this?
>> e.) other uid/gid points
>
> Basically same as with udev rules - just define a minimal set of users
> and groups in {C,H}LFS, and have BLFS define additional users and groups
> where needed.
Although this sounds reasonable on the surface, it can cause reasonably
large problems in BLFS. For instance, right now LFS has an audio:x:11:
group. That's it--one line and no comments about it. Removing that
would require a discussion in several packages of BLFS about creating
that group. There are 40 packages in 'Multimedia Libraries and Drivers'
and 'Audio Utilities'. I don't know how many need an audio group, but
certainly at least several.
I think the division of groups between LFS and BLFS is about right. We
have to create a balance between economy of effort and the educational
goals of the books. If we created one 'master' list, then we lose the
educational value of helping users understand what groups are needed and
when they are needed. If there is a minimalist approach in LFS, it can
create a huge workload for the other projects.
For a list of users and groups used in BLFS, see:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/postlfs/users.html
I do note that LFS has added usb and it should be removed from BLFS's
libusb page.
The bottom line is that LFS creates one user, root, and only 16 groups.
Lets leave it that way.
-- Bruce
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