> i am facing a problem here,
>
> pkgadd command installs packages, and executes any installation scripts. So
> when i execute pkgadd, as ROOT and when the pkgadd reads the installation
> scripts,
>
> inside the script the id command returns nobody inspite of the pkgadd being
> run as ROOT
>
> `id` returns nobody,
>
> Any idea why?
Very likely its a security concern. It's not in the pkgadd man page,
but the patchadd man page has these NOTES. You'll see they apply to
pkgadd also.
man patchadd
[...]
pkgadd is invoked by patchadd and executes the installation
scripts in the pkg/install directory. The checkinstall
script is executed with its ownership set to user install,
if there is no user install then pkgadd executes the chec-
kinstall script as nobody. The SVR4 ABI states that the
checkinstall shall only be used as an information gathering
script. If the permissions for the checkinstall script are
changed to something other than the initial settings, pkgadd
may not be able to open the file for reading, thus causing
the patch installation to abort with the following error:
pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully.
The permission for the checkinstall script should not be
changed.
[...]
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Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
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