Date: 28 Dec 2001 13:06:30 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 4.5-PRERELEASE build failure with no uucp user Message-ID: <6r666rxdex.66r@localhost.localdomain>
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AFter my upgrade to 4.4-R, I followed the advice of some security
article and got rid of a few "unused" accounts I thought I'd never need,
"uucp" being one of them. (I seem to recall that some OS recently
stopped shipping any UUCP software in standard config. ?)
When I upgraded to 4.5-PRERELEASE a couple of days ago, some make
stopped in /usr/src/etc while doing "make distrib-dirs" and/or "mtree
-deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtrree/BSD.root.dist-p" (?) with msg: "mtree: line
53: unknown user uucp". (There are several other BSD.* files that need
"uucp" user/group too.) I can provide better details if someone is
interested, but I doubt if anyone will be. I'm sorry I don't rememeber
which major "make" step this occurred in, but I think it was in
single-user mode so it was either in "installworld" or "mergemaster".
The question: Should I file a "PR" on this in the hope that anyone would
want to be able to build the system without a "uucp" user, or should
"uucp" just be a required user (or do we call that "system"?) account.
If there are required users for building the OS, I'd write a PR on the
build proceedure to give requirements, if I had some confidence that
I knew what they were. Anyone care about this?
Required to Required to
User/Group build OS run OS
root/wheel yes yes
kmem/kmem yes yes
man/man yes yes (debatable?)
daemon/daemon yes? yes?
bin/bin yes? no?
uucp/uucp yes no
toor/toor no no
bind/bind no no
news/news no no
smmsp/smmsp/ no no
mailnull/mailnull no no
xten/xten no no
pop/pop no no
tty/tty ? ?
nobody/nobody ? ?
games/games no? no?
--/staff no? no?
--/guest no? no?
--/dialer no? no?
--/network no? no?
--/nogroup no? no?
--/sys ? ?
--/mail ? ?
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