On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:53:23PM +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:55:33AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > You are misreading the PackageUserRegistry page. Or more likely, you haven't > > read it carefully enough to follow the link in the first sentence. RHEL > > doesn't use the 'fedora-usermgmt' feature. Not even Fedora uses it everywhere. > > Yes, I see that -- but my problem is still the same, I need to register > a user/group with a static numerical id. So, is there any way to get a > number assigned and know that no other RHEL/Fedora packages will > be allowed to conflict ? I have always filed a BZ against the 'setup' RPM asking for a static uid/gid pair to be allocated, and the changelogs support this approach: $ rpm -q setup --changelog | grep reserve - reserve uidgid pair 109:109 for rhevm(#652287) - reserve uidgid pair 172:172 for rtkit (#609171) - reserve uidgid pair 170:170 for avahi-autoipd - reserve uidgid pair 171:171 for pulse (pulseaudio) - reserve uidgid pair 140:140 for ricci daemon(#585957) - reserve uidgid pair 141:141 for luci daemon(#585958) - reserve uidgid pair 155:155 for stap-server(#555813) - reserve uidgid pair 113:113 for usbmuxd(#556525) - reserve uidgid pair 133:133 for bacula(#554705) - reserve uidgid pair 112:112 for vhostmd (#534110) ...snip... Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
