Re: Package Maker ownership issues
Re: Package Maker ownership issues
- Subject: Re: Package Maker ownership issues
- From: Iceberg-Dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:25:24 +0200
On Oct 6, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Jakub Bednar wrote:
On Oct 5, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote:
On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Jakub Bednar wrote:
On Oct 2, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Greg Neagle wrote:
user/group info for filesystem items is _always_ stored as numeric
values.
When you create your user, specify the UID at that time as well.
[...]
Well ok,
You are probably right in 99% of the cases. But I'm installing a
transparent proxy that needs a unique UID in the system to take
advantage of UID matching in firewall rules. Never mind, there are
workarounds. I was just wondering why it is not supported.
Thanks a lot,
Jakub
P.S. There is a bunch of Linux/FreeBSD software that is creating
new user accounts in the system for their purposes. It is just a
normal way of doing things on Linux/FreeBSD. There is also no
problem to create an invisible user without home directory and
password with the dscl utility, so why not support it in Installers?
It is supported since you can do it in a package with a script.
It's just that it would not be a good idea for the Installer to
create a new user account just because there is a file in the package
payload whose owner does not exist on the target system.
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