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RE: [Update][Test] base-passwd
- From: "Morrison, John" <John dot Morrison at uk dot experian dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:55:11 -0000
- Subject: RE: [Update][Test] base-passwd
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:23:28PM -0000, John Morrison wrote:
>> As per the thread "[RFC] Globally creating a user and a group "root""
>> I've modified the base-passwd packaged to remove user and group which
>> match the pattern ":S-1-1-0:" and ensure that there's a group
>> "root:S-1-5-32-544:0:".
>>
>> Since this version creates tmp files I'd prefer it to be marked as
>> test until Corinna (and maybe some others?!) say it's OK.
>
> Is it safe to rely on /tmp already existing when the postinstall
> script runs? Then it's OK. It might be safer though, to use /etc
> for the temporary files, too.
I don't know. I tried using ~ but it gave me errors (home wouldn't
exist at that time). I could add an empty /tmp to the package...?
I'll repackage with /etc for the tmp files tonight :)
J.
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