On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:16:29 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried to get out of the fedora-usermgmt, if the fedora-usermgmt > analysis is correct (need to assign fixed ids in an admin-defined range) > wouldn't the right thing just be to get a flag added in upstream useradd > to support this ? No matter how hard we try a wrapper is and always be a > PITA. So shouldn't the energy be focused on getting the change wher it > belongs, in useradd proper ? And into the installer and into kickstart then, too? > You know. Upstream, upstream upstream. The Fedora mantra. > > At least that would get the flames on useradd lists on on the fedora > ones (runs) The good thing about a wrapper interface is that you need to use it explicitly before you get the different and possibly unexpected behaviour. Without a wrapper, well-known tools would relocate uids/gids "magically" and would co-exist with tools which don't relocate uids, e.g. "find / -uid 25 | xargs rm". -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
