[Slackbuilds-users] How to suggest new uid/gid for the SBo draft list?

Sebastian Arcus s.arcus at open-t.co.uk
Sat Jun 6 20:38:09 UTC 2015


On 06/06/15 19:12, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> 2015-06-06 20:03 GMT+02:00 Sebastian Arcus <s.arcus at open-t.co.uk>:
>> On 06/06/15 15:51, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
>>> 2015-06-06 14:09 GMT+02:00 Sebastian Arcus <s.arcus at open-t.co.uk>:
>>>> What is the procedure to suggest a new pair of user:group for the SBo
>>>> Draft
>>>> list found here: http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt
>>>>
>>>> I have just started using syncthing, and the developers warmly recommend
>>>> running it under its own user/group when ran as a demon - as it wasn't
>>>> built
>>>> with the level of security required to be run as root. This makes sense,
>>>> as
>>>> many other demons in Linux run under their own user. Thus, I was
>>>> wondering
>>>> if it would be possible to add a syncthing:syncthing user/group to the
>>>> SBo
>>>> draft list, to be used by the install script?
>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>
>>> user:group synchting:synchting (uid:gid 307:307) have been added.
>>>
>> Wonderful - thanks Matteo. As Rob pointed out, the actual username/group
>> should be syncthing (with an "h") if you would please.
> oops, sorry! too much wine at my father's birthday today!
>
Hahaha - now that's a proper excuse when it comes to misspelling during 
the course of software configuration!!! Happy Birthday to your dad!


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