On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No word from you on whether you configured it for static gid/uid > allocation. Static? No mention of that in the wikipage so I don't know... I am using it in its "default". The default value seems to be 300 for uid and gid. Suits me ok - at least for the testing I am doing. And looking at the bash -x output (_stop_ reading now and scroll back to my earlier email - I flagged the relevant line to make it stand out), it _is_ reading '300' and adding '3' and then tries to create the user with id 303. Except that it passes the '303' wrong to useradd. Oops! and the 2nd script very purposefully discards the 303 without checking anything. An elaborate ruse to discard the desired uid and gid? ;-) > Yes. It's usage is controversial, though, as it's considered non-trivial > and non-intuitive by some. I find the concepts and documentation in the wiki easy enough for me, and it will be no problem to use this strategy on the School Server spin. If it works! The code OTOH, is computing the right number and then meticulously _discarding_ it. See - /etc/fedora/usermgmt/scripts/groupadd - discards the gid vs - /etc/fedora/usermgmt/scripts.shadow-utils/groupadd - uses the gid So you would think that there's a branch in the controlling script that based on some rule it will switch to "scripts.shadow-utils" rather than "scripts". Not so - line 73 of /usr/share/fedora-usermgmt/wrapper is our only chance, and it says... for i in "$BASE_DIR/scripts/$skin" "$BASE_DIR/$skin"; do I just imported the cvs history into git and walked it up and down. Unfortunately it's only 0.7 so packaging changes and no interesting stuff. All the versions I can see in there are 100% bent on discarding the user input. Instead of using this script perhaps I can write the desired gid to /dev/null and see if it works ;-) Might still be a PEBKAC at my end, but I cannot see anyt hint that the code in CVS has ever worked - puzzled, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
