[PATCH] make system uid/gid range configurable

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu May 14 20:00:26 UTC 2009


On Thursday 14 May 2009 00:57, Tito wrote:
> On Thursday 14 May 2009 00:25:33 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 May 2009 23:22, Tito wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > this patch makes FIRST_SYSTEM_UID, LAST_SYSTEM_UID, FIRST_SYSTEM_GID, LAST_SYSTEM_GID
> > > used by adduser and addgroup --system configurable to allow different values
> > > for exotic systems like the Android Dev 1 Phone.
> > > The patch was tested a little for the Config part and compile tested for adduser and addgroup.
> > > The Config system gurus maybe could take a look at the relevant Config part as
> > > i did it by intuition ;-) (was not able to find docs about it....).
> > 
> > Committed with some small changes.
> > Please try current git and let me know if there's a problem.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > vda
> > 
> Hi,
> looks good, will test it tomorrow in my HTC G1.
> 
> Ciao,
> Tito  
> 
> PS: ;-( you are a bad boy..... you removed my menuconfig magic.    :-) 

I wasn't sure it works correctly (variable min/max limits).
I was bitten by this sort of things before, so I decided
it is not worth it to risk that.
--
vda


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