Re: [PATCH] buildchroot: Align UID and GID of builder user with caller

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 12.11.18 10:52, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 12.11.18 10:42, Henning Schild wrote:
>> Am Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:19:54 +0100
>> schrieb Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>:
>>
>>> On 12.11.18 10:16, [ext] Henning Schild wrote:
>>>> I am afraid that this is not correct. The ids you are taking from
>>>> the "host" might be taken inside the chroot. As a result creating
>>>> the user/group would fail. Chances might be low ... This also
>>>> assumes that
>>>
>>> Really? I thought that these commands are run very early during
>>> bootstrap where there are no other users - if not, that would be a
>>> bug.
>>
>> I think the only uid/gid you can really be sure about is 0. 1 could
>> already be a regular user on the host, and 1 is "daemon" on a current
>> debian ... probably there right after debootstrap.
> 
> Let me check if we can move the ID assignment earlier, to reduce that risk.
> 

The solution is probably much simpler:

useradd -o ...

Jan

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