From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 22 09:09:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25016 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu (hmpierce@SANTORINI.ODYSSEY.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.185.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25003 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:09:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hmpierce@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu) Received: from localhost (hmpierce@localhost) by santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA07105 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:09:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:09:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Henry M. Pierce" To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: uids Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? thanks! henry ---------------------------------------------- Henry M. Pierce Research Programmer Department of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA email: hmpierce@cs.cmu.edu, hmp@infomagic.com --- Quote for the Millennium: "It seems the most important metric of useful software is not its feature set, but its bug set." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message