[Clfs-dev] Section 10.21 Util Linux tests + 10.24 Coreutils

[Martin Ward]

On 17/11/13 20:00, William Harrington wrote:
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> On Nov 17, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Martin Ward wrote:
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>> useradd nobody && chown -Rv nobody . && su nobody -s /bin/bash -c 
>> "PATH=$PATH make -k check" ; userdel nobody|
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> Odd with shadow useradd, it's supposed to create a group of the same 
> name as the user by default, at least it does when not giving  a 
> groupid. Unless I'm missing something.
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> I think it is best to do it the way you did it and create the dummy 
> user and groups at final-system coreutils to util-linux and keep them 
> till coreutils and then rm them after the tests.
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> Will look at this tomorrow when I have more time.
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> Thanks for the input.
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> Sincerely,
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> William Harrington
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Hi William

hmm, you might be right there, as i think i already had a user called 
nobody, so it didn't create the group

however i like my solution better, seems a bit more elegant

martin