Adding system users and setuid

[Roger Leigh <roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net>]

In the work I'm doing on packaging buildd, I would need to have some
programs setuid buildd (and setuid rbuilder and setuid wanna-build).
I can easily create the user in postinst if it does not exist, but
that means I then need to change the ownership of all files that
should be owned by buildd etc, and then set the setuid bit on all
necessary binaries.

Is there a standard way to do this, when you do not know the UID in
advance?  I guess it's not possible to do this at build time?
Is postinst the best place for this, or is there a better way?


Thanks,
Roger

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