Changeset 159c2d2 for chapter06

Timestamp:

05/29/2002 11:13:57 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v4_0, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

4ceb3a1

Parents:

c4eeb6f

Message:

applied Alex's so-it's-ids.patch

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1941 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Location:

chapter06

Files:

• glibc-exp.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• pwdgroup.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/glibc-exp.xml

@@ -20 +20 @@
 login/Makefile:</userinput> This sed command replaces all occurrences of
 <filename>root</filename> in <filename>login/Makefile.backup</filename>
-with 0. This is because we don't have glibc on the LFS system yet, so
-usernames can't be resolved to their user id's. Therefore, we replace
-the username root with user id 0.</para>
+with 0. This is necessary because we don't have glibc on the LFS system yet, so
+user names can't be resolved to their user IDs. Therefore, we replace
+the user name "root" with user ID 0.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>--enable-add-ons:</userinput> This enables the add-on that

chapter06/pwdgroup.xml

@@ -3 +3 @@
 <?dbhtml filename="pwdgroup.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
-<para>In order for the user and group root to be recognized and to be able to 
-login, there needs to be an entry in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file. 
-Besides the group root, a couple of other groups are recommended and needed by
-packages. The groups created below aren't part of any standard.
-The LSB only recommends a group bin with GID 1 to be present besides 
-group root. Other group names and GID's can be chosen by the user. Well
-written packages don't depend on GID numbers but just use the group
-name, so it doesn't matter which GID a group has. Since there
-aren't any standards for groups the groups created here are the groups the
+<para>In order for the user and the group "root" to be recognized and to be
+able to login, there need to be entries in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file. 
+Besides the group "root", a couple of other groups are recommended or needed
+by some packages. The groups created below aren't part of any standard.
+The LSB only recommends a group "bin" with GID 1 to be present besides 
+"root". Other group names and GIDs can be chosen by the user.
+Well-written packages don't depend on GID numbers, but use the group's
+name; so it doesn't matter which GID a group has. Since there
+aren't any standards for groups, the groups created here are the groups the
 MAKEDEV script (the script that creates the device files in the /dev
 directory) mentions.</para>