On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:56:46AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 10.01.2018 um 11:46 schrieb Jan Kurik: > >On existing systems, to make upgrades easier: > >* if nfsnobody was defined, keep it in /etc/passwd *after* the new > >line for nobody:nobody, so that both the old name and the new name map > >to the same numbers > >* if nobody user or group with number 99 was defined, keep it in > >/etc/passwd and /etc/group, but rename to _nobody > that don't make updates easier but breaks existing setups where > nobody:nobody with 99:99 already owns files - don't touch long years > running machines due dist-upgrades please - at least not with "dnf > --releasever=28 distro-sync" That'd amount to leaving existing systems unchanged. That's an option that I didn't like and initially rejected, but yeah, it's probably better. I'll wait a bit more for feedback and update the proposal a bit later to leave existing systems alone (i.e. systems which have either nobody or nfsnobody already defined in the old style). Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
