Christian.Iseli@xxxxxxxx writes: >> It is easy to create users with predictable uids and fedora-usermgmt >> offers a simple method doing this. > > IIUC, fedora-usermgmt looks the ID up on some wiki page somewhere ? No; you are telling the uid (ditto for gids) in a way like | %pre | fedora-useradd 23 -r ... foo The '23' was "requested" by adding a corresponding entry into the wiki (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry) and written statically into the spec-file. By default, this hint will be ignored. But when enabling it with /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --set fedora-usermgmt /etc/fedora/usermgmt/scripts.shadow-utils user 'foo' will get a static uid of BASE+23 where BASE is configured in /etc/fedora/usermgmt/baseuid. When you set BASE to the same value on all machines, user 'foo' will have the same uid everywhere. Making BASE configurable is necessary because there does not exist a free range for static uids; only 0-99 is reserved for static uids but too small for FE. All other uid ranges might fall under local policies and are not available. Enrico -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
