On 11/22/05, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > With the scheme I mentioned, they would not be hard coding the UID/GID at > > all. > > That one comes down to a preference I suppose. I don't like these > "dynamics" IDs where things are different every time I install a system, > depending on which order things happen to be installed. >
Agreed. But for the *LFS books, it is good to have instructions that work for most users irrespective of their setup. Hard coding the UID/GID would break in more scenarios than the scheme I mentioned. -- 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