On Monday 03 May 2010 03:31:08 Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 2 May 2010 23:57:53 +0200 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > * Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> schrieb: > > > Except as stated they are not fixed (as Fabian pointed out). I'm > > > happy to support something like setting ROOT_UID and ROOT_GID in > > > gentoo-x86 profiles and using those. Then if you want to do > > > something utterly ridiculous to your system you can just set the > > > appropriate variables. > > > > ACK. But it should also be possible to specify names here > > (not just numerical IDs), just in case the underlying kernel > > doesnt have numerical UIDs at all ... > > Most tools which would use these variables (chown, find, install) > support both numerical UIDs and usernames passed in the same way.
technically speaking, all values given to chown/etc... get looked up as a name
first even if it is only numbers. so if you named an account "0", then `chown
0 foo` would not change it to UID 0, it would change it to the UID of the
account named "0".
ROOT_{USER,GROUP} makes more sense than ROOT_{UID,GID}
-mike
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