On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Tim Waugh wrote:
> The question then becomes: when should the names be bound to UIDs? If
> the answer is 'at build time', then the advantage over the current
> situation seems quite small to me (the extra time to run 'id' if you
> can't remember the numbers, over the time already spent hand-editing
> EDITME).
My answer is indeed "at build time", and I agree with you. But (a) the
work to do it is very small and (b) there could be advantages in setting
up build-time configurations that are used on many different systems,
where the actual numbers are different, but the names the same.
In fact, I might well put
EXIM_USER = exim
as the default in the EDITME file, for instance.
> If the answer is 'at run time', then a whole bunch of risks start to
> appear.
Indeed.
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