Re: [Savannah-help-public] mcasadevall user?

[Sylvain Beucler]

[Michael, if you're not subcribed to savannah-hackers, now is a good
time :)]

Hi Jim,

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:32:01PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I noticed what looks like a regular user (mcasadevall) in /etc/passwd.
> Is this deliberate?  ISTR it's against policy.

Michael asked to create a user account because he didn't want to
always work as root. Why not. What I'm against is enforcing the use of
sudo, because it's cumbersome to type a password at each and every
login.

(Btw what policy are you mentioning?)

I forgot to mention that Michael has root access since a couple
days. It was said on the IRC channel but sometimes I forget not
everybody is here :/ Michael plans to improve SVN support, especially
because he needs it for a GNU Hurd-related project right now (after
not managing to agree about choosing git or bazaar or else ;)).


> Also, I scp'd files to address@hidden:
> and see them show up with this same ownership:
> 
>   address@hidden ls -l /var/tmp/c2g-mirror/
>   total 16
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody      nogroup     4096 Aug 10 06:22 .map/
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 mcasadevall mcasadevall 7895 May  5 09:03 emacs
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 mcasadevall mcasadevall 1019 Jul 25 17:46 gnulib
> 
> I would have expected them to be owned by root.
> Anyone know why?  Should we worry, or do something differently?
> 
>   $ ssh -l root sv.gnu.org id -a
>   uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

I guess that scp tries to preserve the ownership of the files you send
- and I guess your local user id is #1000, just like mcasadevall.

Since we'll probably make the mistake more often then once, it would
be good to remap mcasadevall to #5000 or something, unless somebody
has a cleaner solution :)

-- 
Sylvain