On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:23:06PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:29:56PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > Is there any easy way in which dpkg-statoverride can be modified to
> > > distinguish between local and package overrides, in the way that
> > > suidmanager used to do?
> > There are only local overrides now.
> It would be nice to have a facility for packages to introduce
> overrides when dynamic user/group ids are involved, which would take a
> lower precedence than sysadmin settings.
What's special about dynamic u/gids? You just make sure the user/group
exists in the preinst, then let dpkg unpack it to the correct id. No need
for statoverrides at all.
?
Cheers,
aj
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