Re: pkgsrc-created user and group ids

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:59:06PM -0500, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> (I am not subscribed to this list, so please cc me in replies.)
> 
> I'm using pkgsrc on NetBSD.  I'd like pkgsrc-created user and group
> ids to lie in a particular interval.  (That way, for example, I can
> avoid overlap in pkg_comp chroots between the host environment's ids
> and the chroot environment's ids.)  I can do this for user ids by
> putting `range a..b' in /etc/usermgmt.conf, but I see no obvious way
> to make this work for group ids.

You can do that now with NetBSD-current where Michael van Elst enhanced
it to also have a range for group ids.

Bernd