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  • From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Thomas Orgis (e29981cde83e143459e19efbdce706851a8b0cbe)
  • Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:58:44 -0500

On Mar 18, Thomas Orgis [scm AT mail.sourcemage.org] wrote:
> make sure user/group root and bin exist from the start, since they are
> provided by iso normally
>
> There is an unknown number of spells that depend on user/group bin (and
> of course, root...).
> "bin" is a legacy thing and it's usage shouldn't grow, but we need time
> to find all spells
> still needing it. Until all of them are fixed, I think we need bin
> account being created
> at a very basic level - I chose smgl-fhs because it already severs that
> purpose for mail, utmp
> and such.
> Perhaps we think of something better when reworking the accounts stuff
> and smgl-fhs can be reduced
> to only creating dirs.

This is still bug 9788.

> +# That is ugly, but we need to ensure minimal accounts that usually are
copied
> +# from iso. At least in theory (for chroots), we should create
everything via spells.
> +# Root account is always needed, bin user/group is provided by iso and
an unknown
> +# number of spells need it. Perhaps one should make a
smgl-system-accounts spell and
> +# remove all create_(account|group) from here?

Thomas can you *please* fix your editor so that at least when you work on
SMGL things it uses a proper 80 column break? It's bad enough when mails
and commit messages are wrapping, but I really don't like to see comments
and spell code overly wide and wrapping, it makes it hard for others to
manage.

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