Re: drop obsolete static uid/gid allocations

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On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:32:42PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:13:16AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/setup.git/tree/uidgid has a list
> > of "soft static" uids and gids.
> > 
> > == No need for static allocation, afaict
> > games, man, slocate, squid, named, postgres, mysql, nscd,
> > rpcuser, rpc, rpm, ntp, mailman, gdm, utempter, apache, smmsp,
> > tomcat, frontpage, nut, beagleindex, avahi, tcpdmp, privoxy, radvd,
> > imap, majordomo, polkituser, screen, clamav, saned, mock, ricci, luci
> > 
> > == The following are completely unused?
> > console, wnn, haldaemon, vcsa, realtime, nocpulse, desktop, jonas,
> > pvm, xfs
> 
>   There's also a https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry list,

Oh, yet another list. Neither of those lists is hyperlinked from
the guidelines, and it's not entirely trivial to find them.

Anyway, this list appears to be conflict with the list in setup.
Is it used for anything? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserCreation
appears to be rather outdated too.

> which contains 'ladvd' user for the package named the same (which I maintain).
> I guess I could live which whatever UID sysusers will give me. Now
> I have this:
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/ladvd.git/tree/ladvd.conf.sysusers

Yep. If the static uid list is trimmed, it'll be enough to change at
some later point:
- u  ladvd  47  ...
+ u  ladvd  -   ...

Zbyszek
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