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 -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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