Re: package adding users

2004-04-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-07 Erik Bourget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [adding users] > > adduser is the correct tool. See policy 9.2.2. > > I do not think that useradd follows, e.g., the uid allocation guidelines in > > that section, and adduser's semantics are more c

Re: package adding users

2004-04-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-07 Erik Bourget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [adding users] > > adduser is the correct tool. See policy 9.2.2. > > I do not think that useradd follows, e.g., the uid allocation guidelines in > > that section, and adduser's semantics are more c

Re: package adding users

2004-04-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 03:45:46PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:18:20AM -0400, Erik Bourget wrote: > > What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system? > > I have a daemon that has no need to run as root (but a need to store its own

Re: package adding users

2004-04-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 03:45:46PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:18:20AM -0400, Erik Bourget wrote: > > What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system? > > I have a daemon that has no need to run as root (but a need to store its own

Re: package adding users

2004-04-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-06 Erik Bourget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian > system? Policy 9.2. | Packages which need a user or group, but can have this user or | group allocated dynamically and differently on each system, should | use adduser --s

Re: package adding users

2004-04-06 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 16:18, Erik Bourget wrote: > What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system? > I have a daemon that has no need to run as root (but a need to store its own > datafiles, etc, so nobody is out) and would like to have it run under a user > account. G

Re: package adding users

2004-04-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:18:20AM -0400, Erik Bourget wrote: > > > What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system? > I have a daemon that has no need to run as root (but a need to store its own > datafiles, etc, so nobody is out) and would like to have it run under a

Re: package adding users

2004-04-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-06 Erik Bourget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian > system? Policy 9.2. | Packages which need a user or group, but can have this user or | group allocated dynamically and differently on each system, should | use adduser --s

Re: package adding users

2004-04-06 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 16:18, Erik Bourget wrote: > What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system? > I have a daemon that has no need to run as root (but a need to store its own > datafiles, etc, so nobody is out) and would like to have it run under a user > account. G

Re: package adding users

2004-04-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:18:20AM -0400, Erik Bourget wrote: > > > What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system? > I have a daemon that has no need to run as root (but a need to store its own > datafiles, etc, so nobody is out) and would like to have it run under a

package adding users

2004-04-06 Thread Erik Bourget
Hello; What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system? I have a daemon that has no need to run as root (but a need to store its own datafiles, etc, so nobody is out) and would like to have it run under a user account. Gerrit Pape's qmail package does an ugly hit-cont