Hello,
Currently in chapter 6 coreutils we have instructions to append a dummy
user to the /etc/{group,passwd} files so that we can run its test suite
properly. The test suite for bash also calls for an unprivileged user.
See: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1877
Does anyone see a pro
El Lunes, 2 de Abril de 2007 23:10, Jeremy Huntwork escribió:
> Does anyone see a problem with adding that dummy user/group to the
> original /etc/{passwd,group} files, perhaps with a note explaining its
> purpose? At the end of chapter 6 we would remove the user and group.
Why not to use the no
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:41:19PM +0200, M.Canales.es wrote:
> Why not to use the nobody user for that tests?
>
> There is recent thread about this same issue started by Robert Connolly:
>
> http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-March/059171.html
In principle that's fine - I'd rath
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:41:19PM +0200, M.Canales.es wrote:
> Why not to use the nobody user for that tests?
>
> There is recent thread about this same issue started by Robert Connolly:
>
> http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-March/059171.html
Woops. Disregard my last message. O
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Currently in chapter 6 coreutils we have instructions to append a dummy
> user to the /etc/{group,passwd} files so that we can run its test suite
> properly. The test suite for bash also calls for an unprivileged user.
> See: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 05:42:29PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Personally, I think adding/deleting the temp users should be
> encapsulated in the specific pages that need them. That was someone
> wants to update or evaluate a specific package on a working systems,
> they have all the instructions
Hello,
I know this was brought up a couple of times, but I'm having trouble
finding all the relevant posts. Is there a reason that chapter 6 still
doesn't have the branch update patch but chapter 5 does?
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On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:03:44PM -0600, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> I know this was brought up a couple of times, but I'm having trouble
> finding all the relevant posts. Is there a reason that chapter 6 still
> doesn't have the branch update patch but chapter 5 does?
I really need to get my broken
On Monday April 2 2007 22:22, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> And the addition of 'su' to /tools/bin in chapter 5 (as was suggested in
> ticket #1877) is unnecessary now because coreutils is installed before
> bash in chapter 6.
>
> What I think I'm going to do - unless someone has on objection - is add
>
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:47:57PM -0400, Robert Connolly wrote:
> Chapter 6's Coreutils /bin/su will be overwritten by Shadow's, which isn't a
> big deal, but it's not very elegant. I personally prefer to install Chapter
> 5's /tools/bin/tools-su simply so that packages are not overwriting
> ea
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