Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:09:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Henry M. Pierce" <hmpierce@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: uids Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980622120151.6946G-100000@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
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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
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