Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:32:01PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> I noticed what looks like a regular user (mcasadevall) in /etc/passwd. >> Is this deliberate? ISTR it's against policy.
Hi Sylvain! > > Michael asked to create a user account because he didn't want to > always work as root. Why not. What I'm against is enforcing the use of > sudo, because it's cumbersome to type a password at each and every > login. Not only that, IMHO, it's best not to type a password on a WAN connection, even if it's tunneled through ssh. > (Btw what policy are you mentioning?) I thought I requested something similar, but heard that it wasn't an option. I too dislike working as root. Case in point: my current cvs-to-git project. So I may be creating one for myself, too. > I forgot to mention that Michael has root access since a couple > days. It was said on the IRC channel but sometimes I forget not > everybody is here :/ Michael plans to improve SVN support, especially > because he needs it for a GNU Hurd-related project right now (after > not managing to agree about choosing git or bazaar or else ;)). Michael, you should have asked me. I would have convinced you to use git :) >> Also, I scp'd files to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> and see them show up with this same ownership: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /var/tmp/c2g-mirror/ >> total 16 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 10 06:22 .map/ >> -rw-r--r-- 1 mcasadevall mcasadevall 7895 May 5 09:03 emacs >> -rw-r--r-- 1 mcasadevall mcasadevall 1019 Jul 25 17:46 gnulib >> >> I would have expected them to be owned by root. >> Anyone know why? Should we worry, or do something differently? >> >> $ ssh -l root sv.gnu.org id -a >> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) > > I guess that scp tries to preserve the ownership of the files you send > - and I guess your local user id is #1000, just like mcasadevall. Eww... sounds right. I'll either stop using scp, or find a way to disable that option. > Since we'll probably make the mistake more often then once, it would > be good to remap mcasadevall to #5000 or something, unless somebody > has a cleaner solution :)
