On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:09:14 +0100, DPB (Daniel) 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 ? Other than the suggestion further below, the Fedora Packaging Guidelines don't handle static uid/gid assignment yet: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UsersAndGroups | | [...] and more are being investigated, including possibilities | to make the mapping static at package build time. => https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/UsersAndGroupsThoughts So, nothing there yet. > 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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
