On 11/22/05, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You work through the CLFS book and you install a service using those > instructions and that book suggest UID 25 and GID 25. > > Now you move on to BLFS and the BLFS has you install another service. > But becuase our IDs are out of sync, the BLFS book uses UID 25 and GID > 25 as well, but not for the same thing you installed with CLFS.
This is exactly the scenario that makes the useradd/groupadd modifications useful. CLFS would have used the -K options for adding the users and groups. Hence the UID/GID would have been assigned based on the available free slot. When the user moves to BLFS and installs a different service, useradd/groupadd automatically find an unused UID/GID and create the new user. No clashes. Ever (well unless the complete range is full of-course). > Now we have two LFS books that use the same ID for different purposes. With the scheme I mentioned, they would not be hard coding the UID/GID at all. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
