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From: "Jürgen Beisert" <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] group ids
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:26:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201307261526.31631.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F25D60.5060807@erwinrol.com>

Hi Erwin,

On Friday 26 July 2013 13:28:32 Erwin Rol wrote:
> how is the group id management in ptxdist suppose to work? The *.make
> files all seem to use numeric values.

Marc has changed this behaviour longer time ago to also support names instead 
of numeric values only.

> Is there any mechanism to see which GID's (and UID's) are used for what?
> And how to decide which ID's to use for new users/groups?

AFAIR PTXdist uses the provided /etc/passwd and /etc/group to map the UID/GID 
names from the rules files to numerical values (but I'm not sure).

jbe

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-26 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-26 11:28 Erwin Rol
2013-07-26 13:15 ` Robert Schwebel
2013-07-26 13:26 ` Jürgen Beisert [this message]

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