[poky] [PATCH 2/5] cronie: enable multi-user crontab usage and make cron environment complete

[Yu Ke]

On Jan 27, 16:34, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 01/27/2011 04:07 PM, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >>From: Wold, Saul
> >>Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 2:00 AM
> >>>+
> >>>+pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
> >>>+	if [ "x$D" != "x" ] ; then
> >>>+		exit 1
> >>>+	fi
> >>>+
> >>>+	# below setting is necessary to allow normal user using crontab
> >>>+
> >>>+	# add 'crontab' group and setgid for crontab binary
> >>>+	grep crontab /etc/group || addgroup crontab
> >>>+	chown root:crontab /usr/bin/crontab
> >>>+	chmod 2755 /usr/bin/crontab
> >>>+
> >>>+	# allow 'crontab' group write to /var/spool/cron
> >>>+	chown root:crontab /var/spool/cron
> >>>+	chmod 770 /var/spool/cron
> >>>+
> >>>+	chmod 600 /etc/crontab
> >>>   }
> >>Kevin,
> >>
> >>I am going to hold off pulling this and the at changes.
> >>
> >>Is there a specific reason that you are creating this as a post install
> >>operation for the permission management, both this and the at recipes
> >>are doing this.  Please remember that adding additional items that run
> >>at first boot slow things down.
> >>
> >>Is it possible to run these permission changes at actual install time,
> >>instead of on the target.
> >>
> >
> >I thought about this when baking the patch, and finally went to this way because
> >there's chown operation and new group needs to be created. This has to be done
> >on the target, as you'll see in other similar recipes like dbus, hal, ...
> >
> Since this is a similar theme, is there a bbclass or method that
> could be written in order to handle adding users/groups to the
> passwd/group file during sysroot creation time, prior to packaging?
> 
> Will pseudo handle this correctly?
> 
> Maybe for 1.0 we go this route, but we should think more about this,
> in order to create the users and groups we need.
> 
> I think Ke may run into this also for the rootless X work he is doing.

Yes, rootless X also do similar things to create X user in post-inst. I will work with Kevin to see if it is possible to generialized it as one bbclass.

Regards
Ke

> 
> Sau!
> 
> 
> >Thanks
> >Kevin
> >
> 
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