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[Jason Flatt <jflatt AT sourcemage.org>]

I thought I remembered this being decided somewhen in the summer of 2002, but 
I'm having a hard time locating the relevant information.  And it was created 
for exactly the reasons you list below.  Apperantly it needs some fine 
tuning, or there are some spells with bugs that need to be fixed.


On Tuesday 09 August 2005 07:07 am, 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.
>
> 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
>

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