On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 09:38 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > Enrico Scholz wrote: > > >mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mike McGrath) writes: > > > > > > > >>[... fedora-usermgmt ...] > >>0 packages in core use it AFAIK. > >> > >> > > > >Fedora Core does not need fedora-usermgmt because it can use the 100 > >uids which are available for static assignment. > > > > > > > > > >>We're re-inventing the wheel > >> > >> > > > >Please tell me the re-invented technology which allows to create >100 > >system-users with the same, predictable uid at every package-installation > >and on every (Fedora Extras) system. > > > > > > > >Enrico > > > > > Walk me through this then, I use fedora-usermgmt to create a user for my > nagios package. What uid does it select, how does it select that UID, > and when you install it on your machine, how does it have the same UID > that it did when it was installed on my machine? Then Enrico also might explain how to propagate this UID to the NIS/LDAP server hosting a network's network-wide uids. Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
