Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:23:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Henry M. Pierce" <hmpierce@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> To: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uids Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980622162214.6946R-100000@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0yoCPE-0000Jk-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>
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Yes, but it requires our conifguration scripts to be changed. Since Coda uses acl's based on a client have an account present on the Coda client machine, the uid of user admin for coda must be present. -henry ---------------------------------------------- Henry M. Pierce Research Programmer Department of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA email: hmpierce@cs.cmu.edu, hmp@infomagic.com --- Quote for the Millennium: "It seems the most important metric of useful software is not its feature set, but its bug set." On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Dom Mitchell wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 20:37:32 +0100 > From: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> > To: "Henry M. Pierce" <hmpierce@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> > Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: uids > > "Henry M. Pierce" <hmpierce@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> writes: > > Hello. I am creating FreeBSD packages for the Coda File system. > > There is a blurb in the FreeBSD manual concerning uid's: > > > > "If your port requires a certain user ID to be on the installed system, > > let > > the pkg/INSTALL script call pw to create it > > automatically. Look at japanese/Wnn or net/cvsup-mirror for examples. It > > is customary to use UIDs in the upper 2-digit > > range (i.e., from around 50 to 99) for this purpose." > > > > > > We currently use uid "500" for account "admin" needed by coda. > > While this can be changed to be a bit more arbitrary in the > > future, it is inconvenient for Coda development at this time > > to do so because of cross-platform issues. Are there > > any hidden technical problems this might cause that anyone > > is aware off? > > Will this fact matter to a brand new site installation of coda? That > is to say, if you are starting from a blank slate at a site, could you > use something different and get away with it? If so, there should be > an option to create the user yourself, with whatever UID is desirable. > -- > "Remember the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules" -- WoID > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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