[Fink-devel] uids in passwd package

2002-04-15 Thread Kilian Koepsell
hi, i asked this already, but it was hidden in a longer message... is there a certain procedure for assignin uids for fink-specific users? or can i just pick an unused uid in the range 250-299 and add it to the passwd package? speciffically, i would like to have the user 'zope' for a package i

Re: [Fink-devel] uids in passwd package

2002-04-15 Thread Kilian Koepsell
hi, On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 06:50:32PM +0100, Finlay Dobbie wrote: Anyway, I was also thinking about revamping how to deal with extra users in Fink... Users shouldn't have to agree to have all the users required by any Fink package when they only want to use one of them, and it shouldn't

Re: [Fink-devel] uids in passwd package

2002-04-15 Thread Max Horn
At 20:15 Uhr +0200 15.04.2002, Kilian Koepsell wrote: hi, On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 06:50:32PM +0100, Finlay Dobbie wrote: Anyway, I was also thinking about revamping how to deal with extra users in Fink... Users shouldn't have to agree to have all the users required by any Fink package when

Re: [Fink-devel] uids in passwd package

2002-04-15 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 09:51 PM, Max Horn wrote: someone would have to keep track of the uids in use, of course. Yup. I thought about this, too. I'd suggest something to way Daemonic stuff is handled. But how do we keep track of user ids? -- Finlay

Re: [Fink-devel] uids in passwd package

2002-04-15 Thread Kilian Koepsell
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:42:17PM +0100, Finlay Dobbie wrote: someone would have to keep track of the uids in use, of course. Yup. I thought about this, too. I'd suggest something to way Daemonic stuff is handled. But how do we keep track of user ids? if we would add a field like