Hello, can you please explain that a bit further? I don't think I understand, I see this reference at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserCreation: "The first is to register a fixed UID and call "/usr/sbin/useradd -r -u <uid> <user>" or assign a random UID by omitting the "-u <uid>" parameter. For fixed UIDs, there are only 100 free slots, which is not enough for the Fedora Project (79 are already used by Fedora Core), and dynamic or random UIDs have problems of their own, as demonstrated here. Another solution might be semi-static UIDs, which are relative to a system-wide value and unique for the entire Fedora Project. The current (experimental) implementation uses the file /etc/fedora/usermgmt/baseuid to configure the value to which the relative UID would be added. As an example, when /etc/fedora/usermgmt/baseuid contains "30000", the user 'joe', with the semi-static UID 23, will get the final UID 30023 (30000+23)." The file /etc/fedora/usermgmt/baseuid contains 300, so I'm guessing the correct setup for Bacula would be to set 333 as the uid/gid. Is that correct? The previous version used fedora-usermgmt (so uid 333) but did not remove the user and directory; that is pointless anyway because you don't remove the directory only if you have it dynamic. Here is the spec file of the last Koji build; should I change it? %global uid 33 %global username bacula %package common Provides: group(%username) = %uid Provides: user(%username) = %uid Requires(pre): shadow-utils Requires(postun): shadow-utils %pre common getent group %username >/dev/null || groupadd -g %uid -r %username &>/dev/null || : getent passwd %username >/dev/null || useradd -u %uid -r -s /sbin/nologin \ -d /var/spool/bacula -M -c 'Bacula Backup System' -g %username %username &>/dev/null || : exit 0 %postun common test "$1" != 0 || userdel %username &>/dev/null || : test "$1" != 0 || groupdel %username &>/dev/null || : exit 0 Many thanks, --Simone On 20 December 2011 11:48, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:51:09 +0100, SC (Simone) wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Bacula package already has a registered user group of 33 in: >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry >> >> so I will keep on using that; no change. > > That would be wrong, because the numbers on that Wiki page are not UIDs > but just base numbers which are mapped by fedora-usermgmt using a > configurable "baseuid" value. > -- > packaging mailing list > packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging -- You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore (R. W. Emerson). -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
