steve@xxxxxxxxx (Steven Pritchard) writes: >> I agree it can get a bit hairy when several machines share things by >> NFS, but having a central global UID registry also seems hairy. > > In that case, there's NIS/NIS+/LDAP/whatever, System users should be in /etc/passwd because the requirements for NIS/LDAP/whatever might not be fulfilled for early services; e.g. openvpn will be executed before the ldap service so the 'openvpn' user might not be resolveable at this time. LDAP/NIS might be unwanted in certain environments also (e.g. on firewalls, portable machines). > and it is up to the sysadmin to do any extra work necessary to integrate > the package into their environment. In the case of my openvpn package, > if "useradd -r" does the right thing, then the problem is solved. If > not, the sysadmin can just add an openvpn user before installing the > package. rpm does not offer a way to determine whether a package creates an user or not. So the 'just add an ... user before installing' requires lot of manual work, and automatic updates can not be applied. Enrico
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