On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:30:34AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Simo Sorce <ssorce@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 22:12 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:08:02PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: > >>> Why do we need fixed uids at all? is it so difficult to use > >>> getpwnam() ?? Indeed, most of the packages we're talking about (if not all) don't need a fixed uid/gid at all. > >> Because the name isn't stored on the filesystem; just the number. > > > It does not matter unless the application must be able to run > > with /etc/passwd being absent. > > Yes, it does matter, because if you uninstall and reinstall the package > then any files that might have been owned by that UID should still be > owned by that UID. I run into this quite often with the database > packages for instance. What databases are you talking about? Because neither mysql, nor postgresql do that horrible things you say they would. > (Oh, you didn't want your mysql update to wipe out your database?) That *is* plain *FUD*. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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