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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/glibc-exp.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/pwdgroup.xml | 18 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml b/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml index 1acd57137..bd2bab1d2 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ it hasn't been installed yet.</para> <para><userinput>sed 's/root/0' login/Makefile.backup > 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 we install with Glibc: linuxthreads</para> 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> |