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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] pseudo-wrapper: fix console issue
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:34:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161123213403.GB13048@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161123215745.7c307e23@free-electrons.com>

Thomas, All,

On 2016-11-23 21:57 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:28:43 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >   - long term, we want to definitely switch to using pseudo:
> >     - it is actively maintained,,
> >     - it has more features than fakeroot,
> >     - some of those features are very interesting for us.
> 
> Could you explain which additional features of pseudo are interesting
> for us?

pseudo can intercept and redirect acceses to /etc/paswd (and group,
shadow, gshadow) to the ones in the target. With that, we could probably
greatly simplify our handling of users.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-23 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-23 17:36 [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] pseudo-wrapper: fix console issue Gaël PORTAY
2016-11-23 18:28 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-11-23 20:57   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-23 21:34     ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2016-11-23 21:36       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-23 21:47   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-23 23:59     ` Gaël PORTAY
2016-11-24 19:24       ` Arnout Vandecappelle

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