On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:18:00 +0100
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uid 31 is reserved forever (speaking as the base-passwd maintainer), but
new installations of postgresql should have a uid in the system range,
namely 100-999, as created by 'adduser --system'. See the changelog for
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 04:29:37AM -0400, David B Harris wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:18:00 +0100
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uid 31 is reserved forever (speaking as the base-passwd maintainer), but
new installations of postgresql should have a uid in the system range,
namely
Hi!
Am 2003-10-17 2:18 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson:
Use adduser. It's your friend.
This is a word! :-) Fine, I'll make it so then.
Russell, thanks for your explanation, I know what you mean now.
Have a nice weekend!
Martin
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I've just got home and read this thread. It's OK by me, Martin, to make
the change, in view of the tenor of the replies.
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:17, Andreas Metzler wrote:
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hum, instead of adduser, useradd should be used by the posgresql
package.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:27:17PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
If any package that needs to add a user should always use adduser,
should that not be a required package rather than just important?
The priority has nothing to do with how many packages use it; there is an
explicit definition in
Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pre-Dependencies are supposed to be discussed at d-devel which I want
to do now. If anybody objects I will just do it.
I have some reservations about using pre-dependencies on a package
like adduser. Since adduser was not designed as something that worked
Hi!
The package postgresql needs to use 'adduser' and 'addgroup' in its
preinst script to properly save the current database before upgrading
(cf. Bug #180199). Therefore it should pre-depend on 'adduser'.
Pre-Dependencies are supposed to be discussed at d-devel which I want
to do now. If
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:00:47AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
Pre-Dependencies are supposed to be discussed at d-devel which I want
to do now. If anybody objects I will just do it.
Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of discussing these sorts of things?
As it stands, I don't see a problem
Hi!
On 2003-10-16 19:24 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:00:47AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
Pre-Dependencies are supposed to be discussed at d-devel which I want
to do now. If anybody objects I will just do it.
Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of discussing
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:24:21PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:00:47AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
Pre-Dependencies are supposed to be discussed at d-devel which I
want to do now. If anybody objects I will just do it.
Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:00, Martin Pitt wrote:
The package postgresql needs to use 'adduser' and 'addgroup' in its
preinst script to properly save the current database before upgrading
(cf. Bug #180199). Therefore it should pre-depend on 'adduser'.
Why would there be an issue on depending on a
Hi Russell and all others,
On 2003-10-16 21:39 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:00, Martin Pitt wrote:
The package postgresql needs to use 'adduser' and 'addgroup' in its
preinst script to properly save the current database before upgrading
(cf. Bug #180199). Therefore it
Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté :
Hi Russell and all others,
On 2003-10-16 21:39 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:00, Martin Pitt wrote:
The package postgresql needs to use 'adduser' and 'addgroup' in its
preinst script to properly save the current database
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:51:33PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté :
adduser is neither essential nor required, thus does not need to be
installed when installing postgres. I'm not quite sure what you mean,
could you please explain this?
Thanks in
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:51:33PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
Hum, instead of adduser, useradd should be used by the posgresql
package.
useradd is included in the package passwd, which is required package
from the base section.
Please ignore this dangerous moron.
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté :
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:51:33PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté :
adduser is neither essential nor required, thus does not need to be
installed when installing postgres. I'm not quite sure what you mean,
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté :
On 2003-10-16 21:39 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:00, Martin Pitt wrote:
The package postgresql needs to use 'adduser' and 'addgroup' in its
preinst script to properly save the current
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:27:42PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté :
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:51:33PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
Hum, instead of adduser, useradd should be used by the posgresql
package.
useradd is included in the package passwd,
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté :
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:27:42PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté :
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:51:33PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
Hum, instead of adduser, useradd should be used by the posgresql
package.
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:01, Martin Pitt wrote:
Why would there be an issue on depending on a more important package?
Having an optional/misc package pre-depend on an important/base package
seems like a non-issue to me.
adduser is neither essential nor required, thus does not need to be
Hi!
Please don't get me wrong, I don't insist of using adduser. IMHO
Mathieu's solution of checking whether adduser is available is
acceptable, if adduser is not installed then I can't break any admin
preferences anyway. In addition, user postgres has uid 31, thus
base-passwd should have given
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:36:04PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
Please don't get me wrong, I don't insist of using adduser. IMHO
Mathieu's solution of checking whether adduser is available is
acceptable, if adduser is not installed then I can't break any admin
preferences anyway. In addition,
if postgresql pre-depends on adduser and adduser pre-depends on postgresql
then there would be a problem, but this would be an obvious bug in adduser
and nothing that you would have to be concerned with as maintainer of
postgresql.
Also if postgresql p-d on adduser, adduser p-d on libpam-pgsql (assuming
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