cvs commit: ports UIDs

Chris Rees crees at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 14 20:42:14 UTC 2011


2011/6/14 Pav Lucistnik <pav at freebsd.org>:
> Maybe I missed something, but why do we need nobody user here, when we
> already have it in default master.passwd on every new installation?
>
> $ grep nobody /usr/src/etc/master.passwd
> nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
>

Because the code in bsd.port.mk fails if a group is in GROUPS but not GIDs.

Of course, I realised as you pointed that out that it's unnecessary,
because the nobody reference isn't in GROUPS, so not parsed by that
code.

Should I remove the line in UIDs / GIDs?

Chris


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