[Michael, if you're not subcribed to savannah-hackers, now is a good time :)]
Hi Jim, 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. 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. (Btw what policy are you mentioning?) 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 ;)). > 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. 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 :) -- Sylvain
