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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] user creation optional
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:32:15 +0200

On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 02:20:52AM -0700, seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:
> user and group creation should be optional. If a user or group creation
> is optional for a spell, we need to add this to our grimoire api
> routines so we can setup defaults for this and to override this.
>
> Eventually, we could, with the stage_root help, even get the entire cast
> process pulled into a non-root user except the install stage. making
> the user and group creation optional would make it easier to cast as a
> user later.
>
> I'm just saying there are a few good reasons to think about going this
> direction.
>
> Any comments? If reaction is amenable, I'm going to file a bug assigned
> to myself to start this process.

I like the idea, though it might be hard to do for some spells. There
are several programs that do chown/chgrp in their install process,
failing if the user doesn't exist. We'd have to fix all those to work
both with and without user/group existing.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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