Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
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.
Hi Sylvain!
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.
Not only that, IMHO, it's best not to type a password on a WAN
connection, even if it's tunneled through ssh.
(Btw what policy are you mentioning?)
I thought I requested something similar, but heard that it wasn't
an option. I too dislike working as root. Case in point: my current
cvs-to-git project. So I may be creating one for myself, too.
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 ;)).
Michael, you should have asked me.
I would have convinced you to use git :)
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.
Eww... sounds right.
I'll either stop using scp, or find a way to disable that option.
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 :)