Date: 19 Apr 2002 13:59:08 -0000 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/37251: ports seem to have to hardwire numeric userids. Message-ID: <20020419135908.32874.qmail@mired.org>
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>Number: 37251
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: ports seem to have to hardwire numeric userids.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Apr 19 07:00:02 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Mike Meyer
>Release: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Meyer Consulting
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD guru.mired.org 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #4: Sun Apr 7 04:32:23 CDT 2002 mwm@guru.mired.org:/sharetmp/obj/usr/src/sys/GURU i386
>Description:
ports that need to create userids all seem to wire a numeric
userid down. This sometimes causes collisions when two ports
trying to use the same uid are installed, and may also cause
problems if a third party package is installed other than via
ports.
>How-To-Repeat:
Examine some ports that create userids, and note that most
(all?) wire in the userids: qmail, postgresql and perforce
immediately, but there are others.
>Fix:
How about providing a /usr/ports/Mk/pw.conf file that
specifically for creating ids - both user and group - for
ports? A copy of the default that specifies a min[ug]id of 1,
and a max[ug]id of 99, or roughly those numbers. That way the
install scripts that currently invoke pw with something like
"-u ${UID} -g ${GID}" can leave those off, and just use "-C
${PORTSDIR}/Mk/pw.conf", and have the user and groups
allocated automatically. Possibly a PW variable could be added
to ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk that is set to "pw -C
${PORTSDIR}/Mk/pw.conf" to make it slightly easier to get
these things right - assuming that pw will work with [-C
config] before the command.
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