[Fink-devel] uids in passwd package
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 am building. kilian ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] uids in passwd package
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 really require a modification in the passwd package every time a package maintainer wants to add one. Thoughts on how we could implement this? what about making a directory /sw/etc/passwd-fink.d ? every package requiring an own user can put a file there with just one line containing the password information. after installation the script of the passwd package can add all users. someone would have to keep track of the uids in use, of course. cheers, kilian ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] uids in passwd package
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 they only want to use one of them, and it shouldn't really require a modification in the passwd package every time a package maintainer wants to add one. Thoughts on how we could implement this? what about making a directory /sw/etc/passwd-fink.d ? every package requiring an own user can put a file there with just one line containing the password information. after installation the script of the passwd package can add all users. 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. Max -- --- Max Horn Software Developer email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (+49) 6151-494890 ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] uids in passwd package
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 ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] uids in passwd package
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 PasswdUID: 456 to the .info file, than a package maintainer who needs a new uid could do a grep -ri PasswdUID /sw/dists fink could/should als check this whenever it reads the package list. kilian ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
