mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mike McGrath) writes: > I'm just trying to get a little background on this fedora-usermgmt and > user creation problem. The page in the wiki I'm talking about here > is: > > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/UserCreation > > The way I understand it is we're trying to avoid creating users with > UID's that are already reserved The purpose of 'fedora-usermgmt' is, to create a (system)user with the same, predictable uid on every installation ('rpm -U') and on every machine. > for a package that has not yet been installed. Having every package > that requires a user register it seems un-reasonable since the number > of UID's is finite and the number of packages that create users is > large. On my machines, I reserve the uid-range from 63000 to 63999 for fedora-usermgmt and I am optimistically that this range is enough for the next years. If we ever exceed it, fedora-usermgmt can be easily extended to use another range for special uids resp. uids greater a certain value. > The problem I have with the UserCreation page in the wiki is it provides > no non fedora-usermgmt creation alternatives. Some macro-mania was added some days ago, which allow a '--without fedora-usermgmt' switch. Enrico
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