Re: Fedora User Management (revisited)

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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:16:28PM +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Most daemons are candidates for fixed uid/gid; unfortunately, there is
> only a small range (0-100) available. 'fedora-usermgmt' *allows* the
> administrator to use a free range of uids for service users.

The main problems I see are 1) the package portability annoyance and 2) the
serious issue of how to configure it *before* installation. To solve #2, we
need to have a static registry (i.e. preconfigure the package), and if we're
doing that, we might as well do away with it completely.



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