On Sun, 2 May 2010 23:57:53 +0200 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Alec Warner 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