Re: [fink-core] Making --build-as-nobody default?

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

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On 3/5/10 7:57 AM, Max Horn wrote:
> 
> Am 05.03.2010 um 09:40 schrieb Martin Costabel:
> 
>> Max Horn wrote:
>> []
>>> Any objections to this? Please voice them! If you don't have time for
>>> a proper reply, even a simple "I have objections, will explain  
>>> later!"
>>> would be helpful...
>>
>> Not an objection, but something to think about:
>>
>> You will need to make the passwd package essential, or at least the  
>> part
>> where it creates the fink-bld user. Letting new users, including
>> fink-bld, be created in the system is currently optional. Apart from  
>> the
>> necessary change in passwd, making passwd essential would mean that it
>> will be cast in stone forever. The work in progress about changing
>> passwd from a global all-users-at-once system to a per-package user
>> addition service would then probably be impossible to achieve. I would
>> rather see this change in the passwd package finished first.
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> excellent point. Well, I guess build as nobody also works without  
> passwd, but this is far from optimal. And making a package essential  
> is indeed something that needs to be very well thought out.
> 
>   Is <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2686674&group_id=17203&atid=414256 
>  > the right place to track the passwd progress, and to comment on it  
> etc.?
> 
> 
> Bye,
> Max
> 

Yes.

One additional thing to consider with the per-user passwd option is that
perhaps only the passwd-fink-bld package would have to be essential.

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Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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