On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 10:01:26AM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > That's not possible. Only the range 0-99 is reserved for fixed user > ids. All other ranges are free for local uses. For example the range > 100-499 mentioned in another posting: every third party package which > adds user, or just a simple 'useradd -r' will assign the next unused > uid in this area. So you can not assign fixed UIDs in this range as it > *will* cause conflicts. > > Using another UID range will be similarly; it may be/is possible that > this range is used on some system. Yes, but the range under 500 is already defined as "special". I don't think it's unreasonable for a certain subset of that to be now marked as reserved for Fedora Extras packages. We could make it start at 300 to be less likely to conflict with random "useradd -r" done earlier. (Does useradd -r still use the wacky logic of picking the next-highest UID instead of the lowest available? That should be fixed if so -- I have a patch to change the general behavior but haven't checked if useradd -r follows its own logic.) > That's why, fedora-usermgmt was written. It creates an UID relative to a > configurable base (the value in /etc/fedora/usermgmt/base[gu]id). How > you fill an entry into this file is your thing... I use cfengine for it > and it works well. We can't have a *default* that breaks in large environments. I guess I'm not terribly opposed to continuing to use the abstraction tools so someone can pick another range if they've already got many non-standard system accounts. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
