Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:07:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: nik@FreeBSD.org Cc: ache@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd Message-ID: <200110251707.f9PH7ba69821@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <20011025111122.D3939@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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On 25 Oct, Nik Clayton wrote: > If I'm feeling particularly energetic these could be variables in one > of the ports .mk files. Probably variables per 'user' -- taking the > form USER_<system>, UID_<system>, GROUP_<system>, GID_<system>, where > <system> is one of WWW, XTEN, POP3, .... Ok, so a port will be able to specify, that it needs a user and/or a group named <such-and-such> and would PREFER ids <such> and <such> for them. It is desirable to have the same numeric ids too across the server farm... pkg_* utilities need to be able to handle this too, btw. IMHO, this is a cleaner way, than preconfiguring the users, but it seems like too much work. Because it also needs to consider NIS and, possibly, other distributed user-databases (pam_ldap?). Or, may be, if the use of NIS, etc. is detected the install/pkg_add should fail with a message requiring the admin to add the user/group manually. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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