Re: Users and Groups

2006-04-23 Thread Matt Darcy
Joe Ciccone wrote: I put this page together with the users and groups from LFS and BLFS. The only addition I made to this page is a users groups with a gid of 100. Anyone that wants to set something in stone, this would be a good place to start. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~jciccone

Re: Users and Groups

2006-04-21 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
Joe Ciccone wrote: > I put this page together with the users and groups from LFS and BLFS. > The only addition I made to this page is a users groups with a gid of > 100. Anyone that wants to set something in stone, this would be a good > place to start. http://www.linuxfromscratch.o

Users and Groups

2006-04-21 Thread Joe Ciccone
I put this page together with the users and groups from LFS and BLFS. The only addition I made to this page is a users groups with a gid of 100. Anyone that wants to set something in stone, this would be a good place to start. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~jciccone/users.html -- http

Re: Final users and groups

2005-02-19 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Anderson Lizardo wrote: > usbfs/proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=14,devmode=0660 0 0 Options may be removed here and re-added back in BLFS on libusb page. Or better, BLFS should install proper userspace hotplug handlers with SANE and gphoto2, and then we can forget about the "usb" group and it

Re: Final users and groups

2005-02-19 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Gerard Beekmans wrote: Would these things best fit under a general "file systems" part or chapter where we could go more in depth on the various extra file systems available that could be mounted. Or not worry about it and if BLFS installs software that needs the usbfs mounted, it could mention

Re: Final users and groups

2005-02-19 Thread Gerard Beekmans
On February 19, 2005 07:20 pm, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > being security-controlled here; these instructions do not apply to USB > storage devices, network interfaces and the like, but rather to > scanners, video capture devices and such. I guess I was thinking about the storage devices only. The s

Re: Final users and groups

2005-02-19 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Gerard Beekmans wrote: In this specific case I would suggest adding a group on this page. There is no software needed in BLFS like usbutils or something of the sort. But we are back in the same position; LFS does not create any users other than root, and root has access to everything. There _is_

Re: Final users and groups

2005-02-19 Thread Gerard Beekmans
On February 19, 2005 01:11 pm, Anderson Lizardo wrote: > The suggested fstab line assumes there is a group with GID=14 on the system > (the current "usb" group). We should either recommend adding the addition > of the usb group here or move the above text entirely to BLFS. In this specific case I

Re: Final users and groups

2005-02-19 Thread Anderson Lizardo
On Friday 18 February 2005 17:49, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > groups: > root:x:0 > console:x:1 > tty:x:2 > kmem:x:3 > disk:x:4 > utmp:x:5 > nogroup:x:65534 > > The floppy, cdrom, and usb groups are removed from this list. If you > setup /etc/fstab properly users will be able to mount cdroms wit

Re: Final users and groups

2005-02-19 Thread Gerard Beekmans
On February 19, 2005 01:23 am, Jack Brown wrote: > Unfortunately I don't really have a clear understanding of what the > "bin" group is for and how it's intended to be used, so I'm not really > sure. Explanations will be added to the book. As well as the rationale why the ones left in there wer

Re: Final users and groups

2005-02-19 Thread Jack Brown
Gerard Beekmans wrote: Here's what I think we will use as user new users and groups list: users: root:x:0:0 nobody:x:65534:65534 groups: root:x:0 console:x:1 tty:x:2 kmem:x:3 disk:x:4 utmp:x:5 nogroup:x:65534 Just a couple of things, Currently in the section on users and group