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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Default groups and users provided on ISO (was: create_account & create_group placement)
  • Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:04:02 -0700

Looks good to me. If you set user:x:100: to 1000, does a groupadd add
after 1000? If so, we might use that instead of hacking groupadd.

Seth

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:54:49PM +0200, Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> Hi all!
> Just wanted to use this thread to get a general opinion on what should be
> in the ISO /etc/passwd and /etc/group. We have a minimum at [0], but static
> /dev or udev already wants a few groups not in there. However, I'd kindof
> like to keep the lists minimal. Why would you want to have a MySQL user if
> you
> never had it installed?
>
> This is the current contents of my p4 section:
> ==passwd==
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> bin:x:1:1::/dev/null:/bin/false
> nobody:x:65534:65534::/dev/null:/bin/false
> ==group==
> root:x:0:
> bin:x:1:
> tty:x:10:
> sys:x:11:
> kmem:x:12:
> ppp:x:13:
> lp:x:14:
> floppy:x:15:
> disk:x:16:
> audio:x:17:
> users:x:100:
> nogroup:x:65534:
> ==EOF==
> Comments?
> So Far,
> Karsten
>
> [0]
> http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/usernames.html



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