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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-05-29 23:13:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-05-29 23:13:57 +0000 |
| commit | 159c2d2da34540e99d4aa985dc9e2c7e7a76ec4d (patch) | |
| tree | 14654a2cbd70f026b92aa2b760c85f32eddbb588 /chapter06/pwdgroup.xml | |
| parent | c4eeb6f378b5b9d1d1e43274b8dfa2bb124b8312 (diff) | |
applied Alex's so-it's-ids.patch
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1941 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml index 942281c2b..bf2f0315d 100644 --- a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml +++ b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml @@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ <title>Creating passwd and group files</title> <?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> |