Re: Passwd/Group changes proposal v2
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996 03:14:50 EST Buddha Buck (bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu)
wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:53:00 GMT Ian Jackson (ian@chiark.greenend.org.
> > uk) wrote:
> >
> > > Philippe Troin:
>
> No, it's more complicated than that.
>
> Right now, I'm UID 1000 on my Debian machine. If I were to change my
> UID to 1100, I would also have to change the ownership of every file I
> own, on every disk --including removable ones-- to UID 1100 as well.
> This is not trivial by any stretching of that word.
That's right for users. But for system UID, we can assume that only packages will create files with this UID. Upgrading both the base-passwd package and the other package can make it work.
Something like:
base-passwd version 6.7-9 conflicts with myfunkypackage (<<1.2.3-4)
myfunckypackage version 1.2.3-4 requires base-passwd (>=6.7-9)
I'm not advocating this is the right way to it, but it can be done.
Oviously, it won't work if myfunckypackage creates files with the moving UIDs and/or GIDs...
Phil.
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