Re: uid/gid - comments?
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 04:32:25PM +0000, David Coe wrote:
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> I notice that mysql-server has the same situation; it creates or takes over
> the 'mysql' group and user, in the mysql-server.preinst file.
>
> (If I happened to have a user with that name before installing mysql-server,
> I wouldn't be very happy.) I suspect that mysql and Josef's UPS thing are not
> the only examples.
>
> I guess the correct solution (policy?) would be to put the user name in a
> conf file, and have the preinst ask the admin for a new name if the
> suggested name is already in use.
This is common enough... should we perhaps create a system wide file, that
maps default {user,group}names to local {user,group}names?
eg, in /etc/local_names:
mysql mysql
ups ups2
And write a few helpers to manage editing and checking of the file from
{pre,post}{inst,rm} (uidregister, etc.)?
If people like this idea, then we could flesh it out
into a full proposal, but first I'd like to hear people's opinions?
> Jozef Hitzinger <hitzinger@phobos.fphil.uniba.sk> writes:
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> > What should the package do, when it uses dynamic system ids (recognized by
> > name, not numeric value) and encounters a system, where the designed name
> > is already used by someone else?
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