Re: head && auditdistd

From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29_at_alumni.cwru.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 07:37:30 -0700
It is recommended to run mergemaster -p prior to all installworld.

- Justin
On May 14, 2013 7:35 AM, "Alexander Yerenkow" <yerenkow_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a pretty anti-user design, when such information is pretty obscure
> and spread in Updating and wiki.
> You can have buildbox, which just builds worlds and install it not to
> self-host system, but instead to some image / or to other disk.
> And in one day all just stops working, and ask you to run mergemaster or
> manually add new user (Exactly was my case when this fresh user appeared) .
> Hm, even actually not asking, but simply failing with some message.
> If this is pretty obvious, why not insert adding this user into Makefile,
> with prompting if user actually wants to add it.
> That was my point, not the way of adding user itself.
>
>
>
> 2013/5/14 Justin Hibbits <jrh29_at_alumni.cwru.edu>
>
>> You should run 'mergemaster -p' before installworld, as that would add any
>> necessary new users to the file.
>>
>> - Justin
>> On May 13, 2013 11:48 PM, "Matthias Apitz" <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Today morning I wanted to make and install a fresh /head to an USB key
>> > for further distribution the usual way:
>> >
>> > ...
>> > # make installworld  DESTDIR=/mnt
>> > # make installkernel DESTDIR=/mnt KERNCONF=GENERIC INSTALL_NODEBUG=t
>> > # make distrib-dirs  DESTDIR=/mnt
>> > # make distribution  DESTDIR=/mnt
>> >
>> > 'installworld' instructed me about the missing user 'auditdistd'; I have
>> > read what src/UPDATING says, but can't find any pointer to the man page
>> > of auditdistd(8) or in our handbook; with Don Google I got to know that
>> I
>> > have to add this with something like
>> >
>> > # pw useradd -n auditdistd -g audit -c "Auditdistd unprivileged user" -d
>> > /var/empty -s /usr/sbin/nologin
>> >
>> > Can someone bring a bit light into this? Thanks in advance
>> >
>> >         matthias
>> >
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