[Slackbuilds-users] Fcron and http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt

[Richard]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Erik Hanson wrote:

> I added fcron user/group 289 to uid_gid.txt

Thanks Erik!

On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Miguel De Anda wrote:

> I believe the general consensus is to not include a user_add or similar 
> in the script but instead add a message in
> the readme. See how other build scripts so it... I know plexmediaserver 
> uses one and so does docker.

Thanks Miquel, I was already thinking along these lines, but the
plexmediaserver SlackBuild script gave me the idea to use "getent"
instead of either "grep" or "id" for testing groups and userids.

getent is preferred as it works with external group/userid servers such as 
LDAP.  In any large organization, the /etc/group and /etc/passwd files 
hold only a small fraction of the available groups and userids.

Richard Narron
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