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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>]

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 14:07, David Brown wrote:
> My 2 Cents
>
> 1)
> A standardized place for this would be nice, one of the sorcery bugs
> involves documenting where functions 'should' go, so figuring this out
> would be nice.


 how about an optional line in DETAILS, to specify ACCOUNT and/or GROUP ,
so that sorcery could do the work in a consistent manner?

>
> 2)
> Hard Coding of the groups and user system accounts,
> Finding this kinda thru me off and took me a bit to figure out.
> I was wondering the historical reasons for using this hard coding and
> also wondering how many other people have SA added groups/users that
> conflict with the hard coded ones.
> After a little messing with I found several on my systems:
> dmlb2000:
> root@dmlb2000:/etc# grep svn group
> svn_readers:x:122:svn_committers,dmlb2000
> root@dmlb2000:/etc# grep 122 /var/lib/sorcery/codex/stable/groups
> clamav:122:
>
> dmlb2002:
> dmlb2000@dmlb2002:~$ grep svn /etc/group
> svn_readers:x:134:svn_committers
> svn_committers:x:135:dmlb2000
> dmlb2000@dmlb2002:~$ grep 134 /var/lib/sorcery/codex/stable/groups
> ntp:134:
> dmlb2000@dmlb2002:~$ grep 135 /var/lib/sorcery/codex/stable/groups
> firewire:135:
> dmlb2000@dmlb2002:~$ grep ^dmlb2000 /etc/group
> dmlb2000:x:104:dmlb2000
> dmlb2000@dmlb2002:~$ grep 104 /var/lib/sorcery/codex/stable/groups
> junkbust:104:
>
> dmlb2004:
> dmlb2000@dmlb2004:~$ grep ^dmlb2000 /etc/group
> dmlb2000:x:130:
> dmlb2000@dmlb2004:~$ grep 130 /var/lib/sorcery/codex/stable/groups
> cyrus:130:
>
> - David Brown
>
> On 8/9/05, Flavien Bridault <f.bridault AT fra.net> wrote:
> > Hi people !
> >
> > A small detail has been pointed out by David Brown in [0] about
> > create_account and create_group functions from the libaccount. Where is
> > the right place in spells for them ? I look for this information in the
> > wiki, but all that I found about this is the page[1] (which is outdated
> > and hopelessly not referenced anywhere - that would be the time to do
> > this).
> > People placed them in PRE_BUILD, BUILD, INSTALL, I used to put them in
> > FINAL, since it is additional stuff. But I finally wonder if it should
> > not come at the highest level of building, for instance at the beginning
> > of PRE_BUILD, because if the group or the account fails to be created,
> > the software being installed will surely not work, so it is useless to
> > compile and install it.
> >
> > Your thoughts ??
> >
> > [0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9351
> > [1] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=UID%2FGID
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> > Flavien Bridault
> > Source Mage GNU/Linux - Disk Section Guru
> >
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Regards, Treeve