Re: More on UIDs

2005-04-21 Thread TheOldFellow
Bruce Dubbs wrote: In the book, we create a lot of users and groups. Almost none of them have uids/gids specified. Right now, if a user/group is created without specifying, a uid value 1000 or a gid value 100 is used. The LSB says system uids/gids should be below 100. I am proposing a

Re: UID issue

2005-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 04/21/05 07:23 CST: I'm just curious what causes this, whether it's a 2.6.x issue or a ps issue. Belgarath which runs a 2.4 kernel and procps 3.1.8 doesn't seem to have this problem. My username is longer than 8 characters and it

Re: UID issue

2005-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: The kernel version has nothing to do with the display of usernames. It doesn't even know about usernames--only uids and gids. It has to be in the ls/ps code. That makes sense. Might shadow have an effect on this as well?

D-Bus

2005-04-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, Sooner or later, the D-Bus package will need to be added to BLFS. I've worked on it a little, however, not really enough to be fully confident in the setup and configuration. Here are issues I have so far. 1. The socket and PID created by the daemon do not get cleanup up when the daemon

Re: UID issue

2005-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I just did an experiment. I created a user 'averylongname' and ps does indeed change this to a number, but ls -l adjusts the column width to accomodate the long name. Investigating... Investiation complete. The following comment is in the procps source at line 1018 of

Re: UID issue

2005-04-21 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Investiation complete. The following comment is in the procps source at line 1018 of ps/output.c: // The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition) // requires that user and group names print as decimal numbers if there is // not enough room in the

Re: More on UIDs

2005-04-21 Thread Jeremy Utley
In the book, we create a lot of users and groups. Almost none of them have uids/gids specified. Right now, if a user/group is created without specifying, a uid value 1000 or a gid value 100 is used. The LSB says system uids/gids should be below 100. I am proposing a book wide

Re: More on UIDs

2005-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Utley wrote: In the book, we create a lot of users and groups. Almost none of them have uids/gids specified. Right now, if a user/group is created without specifying, a uid value 1000 or a gid value 100 is used. The LSB says system uids/gids should be below 100. I am proposing a book

Re: More on UIDs/Permissions

2005-04-21 Thread Jeremy Utley
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Jeremy Utley wrote: In the book, we create a lot of users and groups. Almost none of them have uids/gids specified. Right now, if a user/group is created without specifying, a uid value 1000 or a gid value 100 is used. The LSB says system uids/gids should be below 100.

Re: More on UIDs/Permissions

2005-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Utley wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Not a bad idea, but we have several ftp and email servers. I thought about using the same number for all the ftp servers and the same numbers of all the mail servers, but that would make the different packages conflict. They're going to conflict