Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 9/17/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One thing I'm concerned about with Dan's proposal of aligning all the
users and groups up between the various *LFS books is of our motto "Your
distro, your rules". If we start mandating all the users and groups
that folks should have as part of a base system simply to create
consistency between the various LFS projects, which a reader may or may
not go on to refer to, there's an inherent lack of flexibility there.
Well, I suppose they're free to ignore our list, but I'm still
uncomfortable with specifying any more users/groups than we have
currently if they're not directly used by LFS packages.
Completely understandle, and that's not the effect I want.
OK, it looks like in my rush to get a response off this morning before
going to work I misinterpreted your intentions, sorry :-(
Also, LFS would never have to mention this list. It would be for the
editors. It's main purpose would be that if LFS decides it has to add
the nobody user, it doesn't assign it a uid that's going to stomp on
another book.
That obviously makes complete sense.
There is also a bug open referring to this exact issue. What I'm
proposing would make closing that bug a _lot_ easier.
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1032
Yep, and it's been lingering for a while. Nice to have something
seemingly unrelated (a udev upgrade) give this one some inertia.
So, the only questions are, where does this list belong, and in what
format? Given that the other books under the overall LFS umbrella feed
off of the work done in the LFS book itself, I'd suggest that the
canonical list of users/groups belongs in either the LFS repository, its
wiki or website area. Coupled with that, because the editors of any
book should be able to add to the list, should the need arise, I'd
suggest the Wiki is the most suitable medium. What say the group?
Regards,
Matt.
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