Re: Permissions in udev don't work when klibc is used ?

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 05:39:42PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Mon, Feb 23, Remco wrote:
> 
> > - for user and group names to work a "name conversion system" (user database + 
> > api to use it) needs to be in place. (e.g. /etc/passwd, /etc/group, ldap and 
> > glibc, nss-api, nss_ldap) 
> > klibc hasn't got such a system / api (or it's not fully functional ?) so only 
> > uid-s / gid-s are possible when linking against klibc.
> > A name conversion system might (or will ?) not be available when using initrd. 
> > (what about early userspace, or am I touching the TODO area too much now ?)
> 
> You can build your udev.permissions via sed, grep, awk or whatever via
> getent passwd and getenv group and convert the names to numbers. No need
> to pollute klibc with 'useless' stuff.

I want to keep the difference between glibc and klibc as small as
possible. It's easy to do with just a few lines and it's better than
a magic update script and a udev.permissions without user readable content.

And initrd just needs a copy of the system files.

Hey, you've complained a lot about 'useless' stuff the last time.
Maybe you just just want to make the whole udev thing a big shell
script for you :)


thanks,
Kay


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