UID conflict: Both database/firebird and net/quagga apeear to use UID 90

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Mon Jan 12 13:59:13 PST 2004


On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:38:06PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:34:50AM -0600, Pete Fritchman wrote:
> > If we keep all the UIDs documented there, we should'd have the problem of
> > people adding a new port with a duplicate UID.  I'm sure there are a ton
> > of ports that add users with UIDs that are _not_ documented there; we
> > should probably fix that as we come across them.
> 
> There should be a way to automatically catch that. Perhaps a post-build
> checksum against /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group on an automated
> ports-building box.

There is. Well, UIDs allocated. In the porters manual there is a
list of UIDs (chapter 15.11). The first one in there wins!

Edwin

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