[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] support/scripts: added support for system and normal uid/gid.

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Wed Oct 23 22:27:00 UTC 2019


 Hi Stephan,

On 23/10/2019 23:13, Stephan Henningsen wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Henningsen <stephan+buildroot at asklandd.dk>

 What exactly is the difference between a system uid and a normal uid?

 I remember back in the days before dynamic uid assignment, it was customary to
make sure that the uids created by the sysadmin were in a high range, distinct
from the uids created by the package manager. I guess this was because the
package manager's uids are always local, while the sysadmin's uids could be used
over NFS. But I'm not a sysadmin :-)

 However, I don't see how this could ever be relevant in a Buildroot context.
Can you give an example of how this is supposed to be used?

 Regards,
 Arnout



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