Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:36:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: ports@freebsd.com Subject: Hardcode uucp UID in ports, or is there some way to determine it? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970801141422.5106A-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
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I'm working on my second port, which is progressing much more nicely than my first. The questions I have concern the fact that qpage runs as root, and switches to a different UID and optionally GID for normal operations. I'm pretty sure this means I can use uucp UID, or daemon UID/dialer GID. I'm favoring the second, but I want to make sure this works within the greater scheme of things. Which UID or UID/GID combination is best for a daemon process that forks copies of itself to open modems? The second question is, I need to feed the UID, and GID if used, to the Makefile. Do I assume that all FreeBSD systems have the same IDs for what I have selected, or is there a way to extract this in the Makefile. I thought I had seen this discussed here before, but I couldnt' find it in the archives.
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