Re: Chaging uid/gid at binary install

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%tombi.co.jp@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:53:37PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Jul 10,  8:50am, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> }
> } Can pkgsrc change uid/gid at binary install time?
> 
>      Look up SPECIAL_PERMS in the Pkgsrc guide.  When you use it, an
> INSTALL script is automatically generated which will set the
> permissions on the specified files.
> 
> } Is it possible to do that in theory?
> 
>      Why would it not be?

IIUC, those uids/gids must be referred to by symbol (user/group
name), instead of by numeric values.

I'm not sure what else have to be assured, thus asking here.