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. > > Currently FPC has a process for allocating new numbers on this list, > but here's a number of static uid/gid allocations from old times, > which are not necessary. Dropping them will allow those numbers to be > used in the dynamic pool, reducing the risk of exhaustion of system > uids or gids. > > (A "soft static" allocation is only needed for two reasons [1]: > - the user is used in the initramfs AND files or processes are carried > over into the real system, > - the UID is used on shared between systems. > > All other packages should use "dynamic" allocation, i.e. create > the user/group in %pre and get any free number.) > > I thought I'd file a ticket against setup, but since there's a large > number of items on this list, I decided to ask here first. > Any objection to dropping (from the static list) any of the following? > > == 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 I guess xfs is the X font server, we use a dynamic one since ages (and as we are now moving to Wayland...). See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureNoMoreXFS nocpulse was likely linked to a company RH acquired a long time ago and whose product served as the basis to Satellite/spacewalk. On RHEL, it is dynamically created, (cf https://access.redhat.com/solutions/222323 ), and I think spacewalk is not packaged in Fedora. -- Michael Scherer _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
