Re: pkgsrc-created user and group ids

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

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:08:19PM -0600, Larson, Timothy E. 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.
> 
> Is there a way to tell pkgsrc to do this generally, or is it OS-specific?

OS-specific. In the case of NetBSD with usermgmt.conf and which is now supported
by groupadd(8)

Bernd