Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday April 23, neilb@suse.de wrote:
>> I think I'll add -u/-g flags
>> I might even include the Redhat code in #ifdef, so if compile with
>>  make RPCUSER=rpc
>> it will do the getpwnam..
> 
> I have added both compile-time and run-time setting of the uid and
> gid, and allowed a username to be set at compile time.  I have also
> made it possible to compile in host-name lookups.  The man-page
> auto-adjusts to match the compile options.
> 
>   make RPCUSER=rpc DAEMON_UID=4 DAEMON_GID=100 USE_DNS=yes
> 
> I think it is now should do all that I want, and should be a slot-in
> replacement for any distro that wants it (providing they choose
> appropriate Make options).
When porting this functionality to rpcbind, I made the setting of
the uid a configuration argument (i.e. --with-rpcuser=user)
See attached patch... Its basically doing the same thing in a
different way...

I guess I've become a fan of letting autoconf (and friends) create
the makefiles verses me hacking on them... although working with
that autoconf API can drive one to drink (which it has ;-) ) but
in the end, I do think it makes things a be more configurable...

steved.