From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 22 13:00:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08410 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:00:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from myrddin.demon.co.uk (exim@myrddin.demon.co.uk [158.152.54.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08356 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:00:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk) Received: from dom by myrddin.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0yoCPE-0000Jk-00; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 20:37:32 +0100 To: "Henry M. Pierce" Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uids References: From: Dom Mitchell In-Reply-To: "Henry M. Pierce"'s message of "Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:09:48 -0400 (EDT)" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 20:37:32 +0100 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Henry M. Pierce" writes: > Hello. I am creating FreeBSD packages for the Coda File system. > There is a blurb in the FreeBSD manual concerning uid's: > > "If your port requires a certain user ID to be on the installed system, > let > the pkg/INSTALL script call pw to create it > automatically. Look at japanese/Wnn or net/cvsup-mirror for examples. It > is customary to use UIDs in the upper 2-digit > range (i.e., from around 50 to 99) for this purpose." > > > We currently use uid "500" for account "admin" needed by coda. > While this can be changed to be a bit more arbitrary in the > future, it is inconvenient for Coda development at this time > to do so because of cross-platform issues. Are there > any hidden technical problems this might cause that anyone > is aware off? Will this fact matter to a brand new site installation of coda? That is to say, if you are starting from a blank slate at a site, could you use something different and get away with it? If so, there should be an option to create the user yourself, with whatever UID is desirable. -- "Remember the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules" -- WoID To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message