From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:31:53 +0000 Subject: Re: Permissions in udev don't work when klibc is used ? Message-Id: <20040223183153.GB21904@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <200402231118.26239.remco@d-compu.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200402231118.26239.remco@d-compu.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel