From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28216 invoked by uid 1002); 1 Jun 2003 17:44:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5319 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2003 17:44:38 -0000 From: George Shapovalov Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 10:44:15 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <87ptm0il9z.fsf@nb-acer.better-com.de> <87el2fijj2.fsf@nb-acer.better-com.de> <200305311943.33852.powers.161@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200305311943.33852.powers.161@osu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306011044.15517.george@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 tagged_above=-100000.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Assigning unique system uid/gid for new ebuild X-Archives-Salt: f4cc74df-be5c-4ad6-9147-d56ca8e3be2b X-Archives-Hash: 3e8a5c41925a7a36b78725d446290117 On Saturday 31 May 2003 16:43, Evan Powers wrote: > On Saturday 31 May 2003 04:53 am, Martin Lesser wrote: > > I don't see any benefits of developing and/or maintaining a predefined > > /etc/passwd with more than exactly one entry for root. > I can see it being a huge practical advantage to know that two installs > will have the same UID/GID assignments, and therefore that disk drives can > be moved between them without mismatches. Well, to address that we can create a "master-list" of gentuid/gentgid's a-la /etc/services. When a package needs user/group it consults these lists in order to pick "proper" id. But then is there any security implication in doing it this way or otherwise? If somehow security can be enhanced by keeping u/gids's random this may be made optional and even with option to randomize u/gid's more.. George -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list