On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 06:01:47PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On dim., 2010-11-28 at 10:44 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On sam., 2010-11-27 at 23:56 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > These gids are in the 'dynamically assigned' range and must not be > > > configured into the kernel; see Debian policy ยง9.2. > > > > On this, I'm not sure (but will ask base-passwd maintainers for advice). > > The gids are configured in KConfig, but can be changed dynamically using > > sysctl (though that means before procpcs is run the gid is still the > > static one). It'd be nice to have the same gids on every system, but I'm > > not sure it's really indispensable. > > Ok, after talking a bit with Brad Spengler it's a bit hard to make the > -proc user runtime-configurable because it'd mean either chown()ing the > whole /proc tree after running the sysctl, or something like that. A > boot parameter could be used too, but all in all, there are no real nice > way to achieve that. So I've requested from base-passwd maintainers the > allocation of 5 gids in the 60000-64999 range, and I'm waiting for their > comment.
I let Yves-Alexis know by private e-mail, but, for the public record, I allocated these gids as requested. http://bzr.debian.org/scm/loggerhead/users/cjwatson/base-passwd/trunk/revision/155 -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101204184821.ga18...@riva.ucam.org
