RE: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package
OK, maybe I'm an idiot here, but I've been following this thread and I have
a question.
WHY does the LSB even _define_ numeric UID settings? For every distrib I've
used, Slackware, SuSe, Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, Peanut, Stampede, and
others, any system user (meaning system related such as bin, adm, wheel, ect
ect) were always extrememly low UID numbers. This in turn signifies to the
system, as stated in the POSIX standard (don't shoot me if I'm wrong, been a
LONG time since I've read it), are reserved specificly for system related
accounts. These accounts have the required access privileges set up before
any distrib is relased, regardless of maker. So, if X for instances, needs
access to the video hardware (using sys or some other system defined
account) all one needs to do is set the permissions to that user.
Where the API would come in is in defining the test definition for
determining the right account to use, not the physical UID number.
If I am way off, don't fry me, this was a quick and dirty email for the
question as it popped into my head. I'm willing learn a lesson or two if I'm
off.
David D.W. Downey
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Yeoh [mailto:cyeoh@samba.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 February, 2002 6:56 PM
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org
Subject: Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core
support package
At 2002/2/21 12:36+1000 Anthony Towns writes:
> aj, who'd be much less bitter if the last seven months had resulted in
> pretty much anything other than "Oh, but Debian should suffer for
> our art too, coz Red Hat did" (Hi, Chris), or "Yes, yes, interesting
Er. I never said that, I just pointed out that all the distributions
have had to do a fair amount of work to become compliant and Debian is
not alone in this regard.
Chris.
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cyeoh@au.ibm.com
IBM OzLabs Linux Development Group
Canberra, Australia
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