[1741] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: adduser/cleanusers scripts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin Foo)
Tue Jul 29 11:56:25 1997
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, fubob@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "29 Jul 1997 11:03:37 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:13:27 -0400
From: Edwin Foo <efoo@hesed.mit.edu>
>The only obvious problems I saw are
>(1) it turns out moira may eventually use uids > 32000; only uids <
>100 are truly "safe"
Oh? okay. I based 32000 on remarks made on linux-help near the end of the
school year (discuss transaction 4441). I guess that if only < 100 is safe
though, you're limited to a rather small number of local users, right?
>(2) the Athena sendmail.cf uses /etc/localusers, not
>/usr/local/etc/localusers.
>
Oh, that's specific to my own setup. I symlink /etc/localusers to
/usr/local/etc/localusers because I want to be able to just tar up
/usr/local and nuke my machine to reinstall Linux-Athena at any
time. Please substitute with /etc/localusers where you see fit.
>Also, you should probably use a consistent indentation style.
Granted. Once a hack, always a hack. My C code is much cleaner, I promise.
-Edwin
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