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From: "Michał Górny" <gentoo@mgorny.alt.pl>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 09:31:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100503093108.0dc0bef7@pomiot.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100502215753.GA29226@nibiru.local>

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On Sun, 2 May 2010 23:57:53 +0200
Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:

> * Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> schrieb:
> 
> > Except as stated they are not fixed (as Fabian pointed out).  I'm
> > happy to support something like setting ROOT_UID and ROOT_GID in
> > gentoo-x86 profiles and using those.  Then if you want to do
> > something utterly ridiculous to your system you can just set the
> > appropriate variables.
> 
> ACK. But it should also be possible to specify names here 
> (not just numerical IDs), just in case the underlying kernel
> doesnt have numerical UIDs at all ...

Most tools which would use these variables (chown, find, install)
support both numerical UIDs and usernames passed in the same way.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

<http://mgorny.alt.pl>
<xmpp:mgorny@jabber.ru>

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-03  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-30 18:07 [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names Michał Górny
2010-04-30 18:29 ` Fabian Groffen
2010-04-30 19:36 ` Alec Warner
2010-04-30 19:36 ` Alec Warner
2010-05-02 21:57   ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-05-03  7:31     ` Michał Górny [this message]
2010-05-04 19:19       ` Mike Frysinger
2010-05-02 15:13 ` Stefan Behte
2010-05-02 15:23   ` Krzysztof Pawlik
2010-05-02 18:52     ` Stefan Behte
2010-05-02 22:06     ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-05-02 22:00   ` Enrico Weigelt

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