On 9/17/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One thing I'm concerned about with Dan's proposal of aligning all the users and groups up between the various *LFS books is of our motto "Your distro, your rules". If we start mandating all the users and groups that folks should have as part of a base system simply to create consistency between the various LFS projects, which a reader may or may not go on to refer to, there's an inherent lack of flexibility there. Well, I suppose they're free to ignore our list, but I'm still uncomfortable with specifying any more users/groups than we have currently if they're not directly used by LFS packages.
Completely understandle, and that's not the effect I want. I've always liked the "suggested" list Bruce put at the beginning of BLFS because I know as a user that here are some uid/gid's that I might encounter. Now, I think only a fool is just going to add a boatload of unnecessary users and groups to the system, but at least you know what to expect. Also, LFS would never have to mention this list. It would be for the editors. It's main purpose would be that if LFS decides it has to add the nobody user, it doesn't assign it a uid that's going to stomp on another book. This is most important in BLFS where the groups really get added, but I thought I'd bring it up here. And I think it's kind of cool that the CLFS books tell you about some common system groups you might want to add. But we need to get those ids aligned with what's in BLFS, most importantly. There is also a bug open referring to this exact issue. What I'm proposing would make closing that bug a _lot_ easier. If there was a list for the editors that fleshed out all the users/groups that could happen in any of the LFS books, then that bug would just reduce to "we need the root and nobody user and these common groups". Bug closed. http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1032 -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
