Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:58:38 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh... Message-ID: <199812021158.WAA08572@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <6862.912595288@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 2, 98 02:41:28 am"
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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
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