[Slackbuilds-users] on creating users

[Miguel De Anda]

thanks robby -- that's exactly was i was worried about (different gid/uid
on different machine)


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Kees Theunissen
<C.J.Theunissen at differ.nl>wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Robby Workman wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:58:03 -0700
> >Miguel De Anda <miguel at thedeanda.com> wrote:
> >
> >> thanks. i guess the safest answer is to not automatically create the
> >> user. i'm thinking of adding a note in the slack-desc and possibly in
> >> the rc script as well. something along the lines of
> >>
> >> echo "$PRGNAME failed to start because it requires a group/user
> >> $GRPNAME/$USRNAME"
> >> exit 1
> >
> >
> >I think it's needless cruft in the slack-desc.
> >
> >It *might* be possible to convince me that the init script would
> >be a decent place to do that.  r
> >
> >-RW
> >
>
> An application or daemon should IMHO not chance the system configuration
> when started. If a program can not run as intended/configured if should
> simply fail to start and log/report that failure.
>
> If (a badly written) daemon would run as root when the intended user/group
> is missing then the init script should test if the user/group exists.
>
> You (RW) wrote yesterday:
>    ... so I'd rather have something fail
>    horribly due to a missing user/group than have a stealthily
>    created (and wrong/inconsistent) user and uid present.
>
> I'd rather have things fail nicely in such a case.  :-)
>
> Groeten,
>
> Kees.
>
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