On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:41:43AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > I'm not quite sure I'm ready to bring this to the FPC for a vote, but > > I've been working on a modified version of Ville's draft: > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway/UsersAndGroupsDraft > > > > While this is more complicated, I think it more adequately covers the > > corner cases of adding users and groups. Thoughts? > > Seems overly complicated. I would rather just have useradd fail > for system users if the user/group exists outside of the predetermined > range. +1 > (And, yes, use static ids less than 500 for everything.) No, please. Let's not violate the LSB for no good reason, and break backwards compatibility to Fedora <= 7 in passing. The only valid reason for static ids was to keep them the same across a site network and we decided to allow the sysadmin to preoccupy the uid/gid space with his local favourite mapping. See Ville's draft and notes to it. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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