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  • From: Thomas Orgis <scm AT sourcemage.org>
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  • Subject: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Thomas Orgis (99e7279813ac0bae4eb45c2cfc0a4bbc2fb74f80)
  • Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 19:17:04 -0500

GIT changes to master grimoire by Thomas Orgis <sobukus AT sourcemage.org>:

smgl/smgl-fhs/HISTORY | 6 ++++++
smgl/smgl-fhs/INSTALL | 17 +++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit 7f2f46240cf9eee7501c5400c86a81047bdd1e65
Author: Thomas Orgis <sobukus AT sourcemage.org>
Commit: Thomas Orgis <sobukus AT sourcemage.org>

smgl-fhs: Ensure minimal passwd files with root account for chroots.

diff --git a/smgl/smgl-fhs/HISTORY b/smgl/smgl-fhs/HISTORY
index 5720b05..c76d60f 100644
--- a/smgl/smgl-fhs/HISTORY
+++ b/smgl/smgl-fhs/HISTORY
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-05-06 Thomas Orgis <soukus AT sourcemage.org>
+ * INSTALL: ensure minimal passwd files with root:root
+ for possibly cast in yet-empty to-be chroot dir
+ That way, _every_ system account should be created by casts
+ instead of hand work.
+
2007-03-18 Thomas Orgis <soukus AT sourcemage.org>
* INSTALL: added creation of root and bin user (groups implied),
this could/should be removed when we have our account system
reworked.
diff --git a/smgl/smgl-fhs/INSTALL b/smgl/smgl-fhs/INSTALL
index acd4ac9..2e965ad 100755
--- a/smgl/smgl-fhs/INSTALL
+++ b/smgl/smgl-fhs/INSTALL
@@ -10,11 +10,9 @@ function fhs_mkdir()
}

#
-# 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?
+# number of spells need it.
+# Note: We assume that the currently active system has existing /etc/passwd.
#
create_account root &&
create_account bin &&
@@ -31,6 +29,17 @@ done &&
fhs_mkdir /tmp 1777 &&

#
+# For a chroot, we need minimal passwd files with root account once we enter
it.
+# without existing passwd, not even `useradd root` will work!
+#
+if ! [[ -e "$INSTALL_ROOT/etc/passwd" ]]; then
+ echo 'root:!:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash' > "$INSTALL_ROOT/etc/passwd"
+fi &&
+if ! [[ -e "$INSTALL_ROOT/etc/group" ]]; then
+ echo 'root:!:0:' > "$INSTALL_ROOT/etc/group"
+fi &&
+
+#
# http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-6.1.html
# in the linux specific section, /proc is indeed mentioned
#



  • [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Thomas Orgis (99e7279813ac0bae4eb45c2cfc0a4bbc2fb74f80), Thomas Orgis, 05/06/2007

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