Re: ports adding users

2006-10-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 13 October 2006 21:54, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The convention is, indeed, that users get UIDs from 1000 up. This doesn't seem to be explicitly described anywhere I can find at the moment, but it is implemented in adduser(8) -- and the porter's handbook requires hard-coded UIDs and

Re: ports adding users

2006-10-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is, I guess, a philosophical question. Twice in the last couple of weeks I have been bitten by ports adding users or groups. In setting up my laptop, I created my user account in sysinstall without creating my group. My ~ was created

ports adding users

2006-10-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
This is, I guess, a philosophical question. Twice in the last couple of weeks I have been bitten by ports adding users or groups. In setting up my laptop, I created my user account in sysinstall without creating my group. My ~ was created with the GID corresponding to my UID, but in building