On 11.05.2007 14:16, Enrico Scholz wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> So I'm trying it in a different way: say I'm a sysadmin and I want to >> have the same static UIDs and GIDs on all my systems for *all* Fedora >> packages that create UIDs or GIDs during install. I need a list of >> groupnames and usernames such packages might create to prepare a >> modified setup package. >> So we need to have a kind of list like this somewhere: >> ||package||groupname||username|| >> ||clamav||clamavfoo||clamavbar|| >> ||zaptel||zaptelfoo||zaptelbar|| > Such a list exists already: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry It misses username and groupname -- those would be needed for the proposed solution. And the list only contains packages that use fedora-usermgmt. > [...] > Using wrappers like 'fedora-usermgmt' will make life of admins easier > because they have to configure their system only once instead of updating > their 'setup' package regularly. Maybe. But it seems it made lots of people really unhappy, so something is wrong somewhere. /me prefers not to comment more then the above -- I leave the user/group handling stuff to the packaging committee and trust it to make a good decision CU thl -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
