On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:40:02PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > you would think they would know history, this was done away with long
> > ago because of NFS mounted /usr.
>
> I wish I knew the rationalle. Maybe they want lsb packages to be able to
> unpack binary files owned by user bin? But that's quite silly, because
> rpm should allow use of symbolic user names in the cpio (I'd hope).
everything in /usr/bin should (unless there are unusal setuid issues,
in which case it won't be bin or daemon anyway) be owned by
root.root. which is guarenteed to be uid=0 gid=0. heck using uid/gid
0 will work on any unix system under the sun regardless of whether
they call gid=0 root, wheel, system, admin etc.
> They only specify 3 user id numbers: root, daemon, and bin. Very strange.
/me thinks they just pulled this out of thin air while under the
influence of psychotropic drugs.
> No idea. That's a standard Debian really needs -- what each system user is
> meant to be used for.
ive always wondered why policy never commented on that...
> Ok, the lsb package could theoretically do that.
>
> (Of course, the sheer evilness of user nobody being in two groups called
> 'nobody' and 'nogroup' which should both own no files .. I guess they could be
> aliases for the same group id.)
i don't think the id matters, nor whether nobody is a member of
nobody or not. the only point of having a group (with any ol id)
named nobody would be to deal with hypothetical initscripts running a
daemon as nobody:nobody. thats the only time it will ever matter.
arguably such a daemon is broken anyway for abusing user nobody in
this manner.
if this is for file ownership its broken, as you said nothing should
be owned by nobody/nogroup/nobody.
> Of course, it's worth noting that the section on how init scripts are called
> is a clear case of 'lets make whatever Debian does standard!', as is the
> section on /etc/cron.{d,daily,weekly,monthly}.
well its nice to know they weren't under the influence of psychotropic
drugs ALL of the time...
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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