From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O8q6c-0004qz-P4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 07:30:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8E78E076C; Mon, 3 May 2010 07:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B40E0760 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 07:29:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so534844fgg.10 for ; Mon, 03 May 2010 00:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.87.63.21 with SMTP id q21mr7714254fgk.52.1272871794317; Mon, 03 May 2010 00:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pomiot.lan (77-253-198-19.adsl.inetia.pl [77.253.198.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d8sm13706946fga.26.2010.05.03.00.29.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 03 May 2010 00:29:53 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Spam Box Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 09:31:08 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names Message-ID: <20100503093108.0dc0bef7@pomiot.lan> In-Reply-To: <20100502215753.GA29226@nibiru.local> References: <20100430200726.298ae94c@pomiot.lan> <20100502215753.GA29226@nibiru.local> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.20.0; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/fjN+=36gdN/7SEiM96tTqWe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ef9befb8-54d5-494c-9659-1f2c4036b430 X-Archives-Hash: cc0078244a3f7168d9c411ae10fed72e --Sig_/fjN+=36gdN/7SEiM96tTqWe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2 May 2010 23:57:53 +0200 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Alec Warner schrieb: >=20 > > Except as stated they are not fixed (as Fabian pointed out). I'm > > happy to support something like setting ROOT_UID and ROOT_GID in > > gentoo-x86 profiles and using those. Then if you want to do > > something utterly ridiculous to your system you can just set the > > appropriate variables. >=20 > ACK. But it should also be possible to specify names here=20 > (not just numerical IDs), just in case the underlying kernel > doesnt have numerical UIDs at all ... Most tools which would use these variables (chown, find, install) support both numerical UIDs and usernames passed in the same way. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --Sig_/fjN+=36gdN/7SEiM96tTqWe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvee8EACgkQnGSe5QXeB7tv2ACeKGVxHqsk+uFPGAfviVXq0FbB rq4AoMw4dJ/If+K/sTYkREkiK25zdjuK =D/AR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/fjN+=36gdN/7SEiM96tTqWe--