Alex wrote: > We can't guarantee the uid, various processes in the > building of the iso have a tendancy to wipe the existing > user and a new one is created on boot not necessarily with > the same uid. The recommendation was to make sure that all > files were group rwx to the users group, not "user" > so chmod g+rwx. Hamish will correct me if I'm misremembering > the discussion.
you've got it, but if you insist I'll chuck in 2c. :) we can expect/hope that established GIDs will be consistent within a distro release. It would have to be confirmed among different distro releases, but I would be midly surprised if the "users" group number has changed between ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04. Also we have to trust that any ISO/VM-making script does not flush the /etc/group file. (so far none have seemed to) so with that caveat we can trust the GID to be stable. if using recursively, 'chmod g+rwX' (upper case X) can be used to only +x for directories and not make plain files executable- which is mostly harmless, but none the less sloppy. Hamish _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
