From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 25 10:10:30 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan.algebra.com [216.254.65.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E07737B61E; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.11.6/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9PH7ba69821; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:07:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Message-Id: <200110251707.f9PH7ba69821@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:07:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd To: nik@FreeBSD.org Cc: ache@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20011025111122.D3939@clan.nothing-going-on.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Oct, Nik Clayton wrote: > If I'm feeling particularly energetic these could be variables in one > of the ports .mk files. Probably variables per 'user' -- taking the > form USER_, UID_, GROUP_, GID_, where > is one of WWW, XTEN, POP3, .... Ok, so a port will be able to specify, that it needs a user and/or a group named and would PREFER ids and for them. It is desirable to have the same numeric ids too across the server farm... pkg_* utilities need to be able to handle this too, btw. IMHO, this is a cleaner way, than preconfiguring the users, but it seems like too much work. Because it also needs to consider NIS and, possibly, other distributed user-databases (pam_ldap?). Or, may be, if the use of NIS, etc. is detected the install/pkg_add should fail with a message requiring the admin to add the user/group manually. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message