Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 08:59:09 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UID conflict: Both database/firebird and net/quagga apeear to use UID 90 Message-ID: <20040112215909.GL1667@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20040112193806.GC52964@seekingfire.com> References: <20040112154832.GI491@seekingfire.com> <20040112163450.B150E17DB9@sirius.firepipe.net> <20040112193806.GC52964@seekingfire.com>
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:38:06PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:34:50AM -0600, Pete Fritchman wrote: > > If we keep all the UIDs documented there, we should'd have the problem of > > people adding a new port with a duplicate UID. I'm sure there are a ton > > of ports that add users with UIDs that are _not_ documented there; we > > should probably fix that as we come across them. > > There should be a way to automatically catch that. Perhaps a post-build > checksum against /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group on an automated > ports-building box. There is. Well, UIDs allocated. In the porters manual there is a list of UIDs (chapter 15.11). The first one in there wins! Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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