Re: LSB specification for adding users and groups
- To: djb@redhat.com
- Cc: ewt@redhat.com, dwarf@polaris.net, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, quinlan@transmeta.com, jkaivo@ndn.net, hpa@transmeta.com, rdm@test.legislate.com, lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: LSB specification for adding users and groups
- From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:21:19 +0100 (BST)
- Message-id: <[🔎] E10uMBU-0000NM-00@the-village.bc.nu>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 199906161919.PAA03883@chef.redhat.com> from "djb@redhat.com" at Jun 16, 99 03:19:27 pm
> What about binaries that have uid/gid info hard coded? qmail used to
> do this, at least (and may still, I have no idea). Even if it doesn't,
> do we need to state that LSB compliant apps *can't* hard code uids?
I think we do. We can permit them to code actual name strings, although the
have to fail gracefully if someone does remove their name.
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