[SunRescue] OT: Advice on Certification

[Devin L. Ganger]

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:06:34PM +0100, David Murphy wrote:

> Quoting <20010506234339.A4613 at thecabal.org>
> by "Devin L. Ganger" <devin at thecabal.org>:
 
> > If you use the install account, the files only have to be readable by
> > install -- which does not need to be and should *not* be UID0.
 
> Makes little difference when you're running pkgadd as root anyway.

Why would you create another account that is UID0 whose only purpose is
to provide a non-root UID for the patch utilities to read the patch
files???

-- 
Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org>
find / -name *base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
su -c someone 'export UP_US=thebomb'
for f in great justice ; do sed -e 's/zig//g' < $f ; done