Ross Boylan <rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org> writes: > I would like to control the UID/GID assignment to match that of > another system. E.g., UID 101 was Debian-exim, but on a new install > that's the UID of messagebus, and Debian-exim is 103. > > I think I can do a minimal install and then modify /etc/passwd for any > accounts not yet created, assuming they don't overlap with already > existing ones. But is there a way to intervene before then?
You could look here for inspiration: http://hands.com/d-i/squeeze/classes/dbg/files/debug_lvm http://hands.com/d-i/squeeze/classes/dbg/early_script These come from a preseeding framework (see: http://hands.com/d-i/ ) but this code doesn't really rely on the rest, so you should be able to do something similar. If you do something like: wait_for /etc/passwd echo Debian-exim:x:101:105:/var/... >> /target/etc/passwd wait_for /etc/group echo Debian-exim:x:105: >> /etc/group it should do what you want -- there's a race condition with this sort of thing, of course, but the packages take quite a while to install, so I'd guess it'll be fine. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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