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Subject: ports/37251: ports seem to have to hardwire numeric userids.
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>Number:         37251
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       ports seem to have to hardwire numeric userids.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 19 07:00:02 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mike Meyer
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Meyer Consulting
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD guru.mired.org 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #4: Sun Apr 7 04:32:23 CDT 2002 mwm@guru.mired.org:/sharetmp/obj/usr/src/sys/GURU i386


>Description:

	ports that need to create userids all seem to wire a numeric
	userid down. This sometimes causes collisions when two ports
	trying to use the same uid are installed, and may also cause
	problems if a third party package is installed other than via
	ports.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Examine some ports that create userids, and note that most
	(all?)  wire in the userids: qmail, postgresql and perforce
	immediately, but there are others.

>Fix:

	How about providing a /usr/ports/Mk/pw.conf file that
	specifically for creating ids - both user and group - for
	ports? A copy of the default that specifies a min[ug]id of 1,
	and a max[ug]id of 99, or roughly those numbers. That way the
	install scripts that currently invoke pw with something like
	"-u ${UID} -g ${GID}" can leave those off, and just use "-C
	${PORTSDIR}/Mk/pw.conf", and have the user and groups
	allocated automatically. Possibly a PW variable could be added
	to ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk that is set to "pw -C
	${PORTSDIR}/Mk/pw.conf" to make it slightly easier to get
	these things right - assuming that pw will work with [-C
	config] before the command.


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