* [gentoo-dev] Additions to /etc/{group,passwd,shadow}
@ 2003-07-22 1:09 99% Peter Johanson
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From: Peter Johanson @ 2003-07-22 1:09 UTC (permalink / raw
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hey all,
got working on an ebuild that required to have a new user and group
added, and had to break down to asking in #gentoo-dev the process, and
then having seemant say, i paraphrase, "yeah, something like that."
Problem seems to be a lack of policy/documentation on the process
involved. It seems quite a few entries in /etc/{group,passwd} are just
coded into baselayout, but i could be wrong on this. Currently, the
approach taken in most ebuilds is to add users/groups in the pkg_setup()
phase of an ebuild.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8634
This bug contains a discussion of a new approach that seems to be the
way we're going with this stuff. This involves the eid_database and
enew{user,group} stuff discussed previously. seemant asked that i bring
this stuff up so we can get the ball really rolling on getting things
finally implemented and then establishing policy and documentation for
this stuff.
comments, concerns, ideas, etc?
-pete "just-wanted-to-add-a-user-and-a-group-for-one-ebuild" johanson
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