Hi, I was looking at user/group stuff more as part of the other thread on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SystemdSysusers - but let's ignore that for a second. So on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UsersAndGroups#Soft_static_allocation - I followed the link to the "uidgid" section, and noticed "Hey, we have another uid/gid listing here". Scanning that list, I saw "polkituser"...which: 1) Doesn't exist - the polkit package allocates a user named "polkit" 2) Isn't used even if it did: polkit allocates a dynamic uid/gid. Now Mirek and I currently maintain polkit, and at least I was unaware of the existence of this reservation. Basically, because this list isn't actually *used* by RPM at installation time, it is prone to desynchronization with the actual code in the spec files, and it happened in at least this case for polkit. I did a bit of archaeology in the git log through several whitespace cleanups/reorganizations and then hit a wall on this commit: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/setup.git/commit/?id=08258e0f748c4f372fcbf1dd7947c132ee0b8a12 Hard to know what was going on at that time. Anyways at least nowadays there appears to be a relatively sane SOP for this wrt filing a trac ticket or bug against setup, but it seems like we have an opportunity now for some sort of static check to ensure that the systemd-sysusers snippets shipped by packages actually match that of setup. Also, we should audit now to see if there are other packages besides polkit that are out of sync. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
