From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] passwd and group files in new baselayout
Date: 17 Feb 2002 06:32:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1013920351.23150.1.camel@nosferatu.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101c1b0db$e4e565d0$b4dc0281@student.umd.edu>
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On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 22:05, Will Rogers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I didn't get any answer for this in the user list, so I'll try it here.
> It's a little more dev-related anyway.
>
> I just merged the new baselayout package, and I have one question:
>
> The new /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow files have some
> different id numbers for different accounts, and one that I added myself
> (postdrop) is now included, but with a different id than I used. Should
> I make an effort to change to these new ids, or it not matter? That is,
> do ebuilds assume certain a uid or gid when installing a package?
>
Depends, but for postdrop, any id should work. I still have
the passwd and group from many versions back, as we only
update those to make life of new users, or setting a new
box up easier.
> Thanks,
>
> Will Rogers
> wjr@wam.umd.edu
>
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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa
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2002-02-08 20:05 [gentoo-dev] passwd and group files in new baselayout Will Rogers
2002-02-08 20:46 ` gentoo-user
2002-02-17 4:32 ` Martin Schlemmer [this message]
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