Re: Adding users
On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 16:12, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 23-Nov-01, 13:34 (CST), Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> wrote:
> > According to Debian Policy section 10.2.1, packages other than
> > base-passwd are not allowed to modify the passwd and group files. I
> > assume this to mean that adduser can't be called from with a package.
> >
>
> Nope. The slightly convoluted reasoning is that when you call adduser,
> you aren't modifying them; you're using the approved interface to them.
> Note that 10.2.2 includes
Ah, sweet. ~,^
>
> 100-999
>
> Dynamically allocated system users and groups. Packages which
> need a user or group, but can have this user or group allocated
> dynamically and differently on each system, should use adduser
> --system to create the group and/or user. adduser will check for
> the existence of the user or group, and if necessary choose an
> unused id based on the ranges specified in adduser.conf.
Hmm, somehow I managed to miss that part. Figures. Thanks for the
info!
>
> which would seem to cover your need. If you need a fixed ID (rather
> than just a name that can be any id), you need to get the base-files
> maintainer to allocate one. Or better yet, fix the code so it doesn't
> need it.
Got it. Thanks, Steve!
Sean Etc.
>
> Steve
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