From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 2 03:51:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA10070 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 03:51:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA10065 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 03:51:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA08572; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:58:38 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199812021158.WAA08572@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Uh oh... In-Reply-To: <6862.912595288@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 2, 98 02:41:28 am" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:58:38 +1100 (EST) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Uh oh. Hmmm. Can we specify a uid in the BSD.root.dist rather then > > a user name ? > > It wouldn't really solve the problem since then you'd just have the > 2nd-order bug reports of "why are all my files owned by this funny > number?" coming in - there's really just no substitute for getting the > new entries into the password file. ... and group. We should test for each user and group defined in the src/etc files and add them if they don't exist in the installed system. This would make bootstrapping FreeBSD sources on a NetBSD system easier too. [Uh oh, I guess they're going to yell at me again. They seem to react badly when I say these things. 8-)] -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message