Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > in some of my packages, I give the ownership on some directories in /var > to www-data without checking that the www-data group exists, but I guess > it is acceptable because it is globally allocated by base-passwd.
Right. > Dpkg will not update permissions or ownership, but when creating the > directory it will apply the ones in the 'data' tar archive. So if there > was no package released with wrong settings, I assume this is safe. Or > am I simply relying on something undocumented and unwaranteed ? No, this is fine. But it only works for globally-allocated IDs in base-passwd. If you instead need to dynamically generate a system user on the fly and then set ownership of files to that user, which is a reasonably common case, this is more complex. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aa1crji4....@windlord.stanford.edu
