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[Python-Dev] Another buildslave - Ubuntu again

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed May 2 16:55:51 CEST 2012 
On Wed, 2 May 2012 13:13:15 +1000
Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Senthil Kumaran <senthil at uthcode.com> wrote:
> > Also, I think the instructions in the wiki could be improved. I was
> > not able to su - buildbot after installing through package manager. I
> > shall edit it once I have set it up and running.
> 
> The page does say: """... create a new user "buildbot" if it doesn't
> exist (your package manager might have done it for you)""", but it'd
> be nice if it could clarify which are known to do it and which are
> known not to, eg "(the Debian and Red Hat package managers will do
> this for you)". Or is that too much of a moving target to be worth
> trying to specify?

That page would probably like a good cleanup. I don't even think
creating an user is required - it's just good practice, and you
probably want that user to have as few privileges as possible.

Regards

Antoine.
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