Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 20:37:32 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> To: "Henry M. Pierce" <hmpierce@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uids Message-ID: <E0yoCPE-0000Jk-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: "Henry M. Pierce"'s message of "Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:09:48 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980622120151.6946G-100000@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
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"Henry M. Pierce" <hmpierce@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> 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
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