Patch: Solaris packages don't create privsep user or group

[Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com]

Darren,

How can a package's checkinstall/postinstall detect that
JSS Flash is being used?

Nico
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren J Moffat [mailto:Darren.Moffat at Sun.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 5:21 PM
> To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org; wknox at mitre.org
> Subject: Re: Patch: Solaris packages don't create privsep 
> user or group
> 
> 
> >Here are the checkinstall script and the postinstall script 
> that I use in
> >my openssh package for Solaris. They create the keys and the 
> group and
> >user for ssh (sshd), and, if the package is being installed 
> in a different
> >root, create an init script that will run these things and 
> then remove
> >itself on the next reboot. Feel free to use any part of this. The
> >/var/empty directory is, by the way, installed by the package itself.
> 
> Creating the keys in a postinstall script makes the package 
> incompatible
> with Jumpstart Flash installations.  It is a better idea to keep the
> current practice and create the keys at boot time if they 
> don't already
> exist.
> 
> In Solaris 9 we create the keys at boot time and also 
> modified sys-unconfig
> to remove the keys from the system.  Both of these ensure that Flash
> archives can be created that don't contain the identity of 
> the original
> system.
> 
> --
> Darren J Moffat
> 
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