Re: Chaging uid/gid at binary install

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:48:49 +0900, Masao Uebayashi 
<uebayasi%tombi.co.jp@localhost> wrote:

> 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.

If you want to assign certain UID to the user, you can use
 PKG_UID.foo=500

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