Re: control the UID/GID assignment by installer

2014-10-04 Thread Philip Hands
Ross Boylan writes: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > . >> The right way to do this is almost certainly by creating a new hook >> script, in an early script -- see: >> >> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/apb.html#ap-hooks-general >> >> Here's an ancient exa

Re: control the UID/GID assignment by installer

2014-09-29 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Philip Hands wrote: . > The right way to do this is almost certainly by creating a new hook > script, in an early script -- see: > > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/apb.html#ap-hooks-general > > Here's an ancient example of doing that: > > http:/

RE: control the UID/GID assignment by installer

2014-09-28 Thread Philip Hands
"Boylan, Ross" writes: > Thanks for the pointers. But is it really true that the 2 pieces of code > don't rely on the rest? They have > . /tmp/HandsOff-dbg-fn.sh > . /tmp/HandsOff-fn.sh Actually, I was making it more complicated than it need be, just because I happened to have been looking at

Re: control the UID/GID assignment by installer

2014-09-28 Thread Philip Hands
Ross Boylan 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 > account