Re: drop obsolete static uid/gid allocations

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 07:03:31PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:13:16AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > == The following are completely unused?
> > console, wnn, haldaemon, vcsa, realtime, nocpulse, desktop, jonas,
> > pvm, xfs
> 
> I'm going to guess that wnn is related to the Japanese input method of
> the same name.  (canna, also a Japanese input method, has its own
> static uid & gid registered too).  Both packages run daemons in the
> background.

OK, thanks. What's the package for wnn?

canna clearly does not need a static uid, and interestingly, it seems
to use dynamic allocation.  So it's just taking up space in the list ;)

> I'm also going to guess that vcsa is something to do with the
> /dev/vcs* virtual console devices, although if that's the case then
> the group is no longer used.
It seems to be used under redhat, removed in commit abbc1c17a0c from
udev/systemd (May 2010). I seems that that file was not under Fedora,
but I'm not sure.

Zbyszek
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