Changeset b18ab71


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Timestamp:
09/14/2003 03:57:26 AM (21 years ago)
Author:
James Robertson <jwrober@…>
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Message:

Added PLFS hint text to the page in Chapter 6 for creating passwd and group: bug 596.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2806 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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  • chapter01/changelog.xml

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     90<listitem><para>September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Added PLFS hint text to the
     91page in Chapter 6 for creating passwd and group: bug 596.</para></listitem>
     92
    9093<listitem><para>September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the "How things are
    9194going to be done" page to include more of the PLFS hint's

  • chapter06/pwdgroup.xml

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    33<?dbhtml filename="pwdgroup.html" dir="chapter06"?>
    44
    5 <para>In order for <emphasis>root</emphasis> to be able to login and for the
    6 name "root" to be recognized, there need to be relevant entries in the
    7 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and
    8 <filename>/etc/group</filename> files. Also, to support one of the coreutils
    9 tests, we will also create the user and group nobody, which is almost
    10 universally present on Linux computers.</para>
     5<para>In order for <emphasis>root</emphasis> to be able to login and for the
     6name "root" to be recognized, there need to be relevant entries in the
     7<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename> files.
     8Also, to support one of the coreutils tests, we will also create the user and
     9group nobody, which is almost universally present on Linux computers.</para>
    1110
    12 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file by running the
    13 following command:</para>
     11<para>Create the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file by running the following
     12command:</para>
    1413
    1514<para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/passwd &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
    … …  
    1817<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para>
    1918
    20 <para>The actual password for <emphasis>root</emphasis> (the "x" here is
    21 just a placeholder) will be set later.</para>
     19<para>The actual password for <emphasis>root</emphasis> (the "x" here is just a
     20placeholder) will be set later.</para>
    2221
    23 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/group</filename> file by running the
    24 following command:</para>
     22<para>Create the <filename>/etc/group</filename> file by running the following
     23command:</para>
    2524
    2625<para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/group &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
    … …  
    4039<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para>
    4140
    42 <para>The created groups aren't part of any standard -- they are the groups
    43 that the MAKEDEV script in the next section uses. Besides the group "root",
    44 the LSB (<ulink url="http://www.linuxbase.org"/>) recommends only a group
    45 "bin", with a GID of 1, be present. All other group names and GIDs can be
    46 chosen freely by the user, as well-written packages don't depend on GID
    47 numbers but use the group's name.</para>
     41<para>The created groups aren't part of any standard -- they are the groups
     42that the MAKEDEV script in the next section uses. Besides the group "root", the
     43LSB (<ulink url="http://www.linuxbase.org"/>) recommends only a group "bin",
     44with a GID of 1, be present. All other group names and GIDs can be chosen
     45freely by the user, as well-written packages don't depend on GID numbers but
     46use the group's name.</para>
     47
     48<para>Lastly, we re-login to the chroot envrionment.  User name and group name
     49resolution will start working immediately after the
     50<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group<filename> files are
     51created, because we installed a full glibc in Chapter 5.  This will get rid of
     52the <quote>I have no name!</quote> prompt.</para>
    4853
    4954<para><screen><userinput>exec /tools/bin/bash --login
    5055set +h</userinput></screen></para>
    5156
     57
    5258</sect1>
    5359

  • index.xml

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