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.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://mgorny.alt.pl>
<xmpp:mgorny@jabber.ru>
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next prev parent 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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