Monday, June 9, 2003, 3:30:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (debian-mentors) wrote:
Marc> On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:11:59 -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry Marc> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Well, you could do the chown at install time inside the postinst. That should >>solve the problem nicely. Marc> Which is what my package already does, but it does not even build with Marc> the account not present. I am very unsure about handling this. If you are chowning in postinst anyway, can't you just change the package to compile with say, nobody as the user? That is assuming there's a configure --option or something easy to change in the Makefile. ------------------------------------------------------ | Eddie J Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]|m00.net]> | | AIM: Uncaring Eyes ICQ: 35576339 YHOO: edmcman2 | | "We Trills have an expression -- at forty, you | | think you know everything. At four hundred you | | realize you know nothing." - Dax, Startrek DS9 | ------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]