On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 18:10:00 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
It's not about a beauty contest, it's about whether this is
something
we want to see being tuned like that at all.
So far there is no alternative. Perhaps we could use the core+extras
merge to start a global fedora uid/gid registry finally?
I wonder how many of the
packagers making use of fedora-usermgmt are really aware that they are
not really creating predictable uids/gids?
If not 100%, then the review process has failed. The packagers have
registered their uid/gid (from 1 to 34 so far, imagine that!) at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry and apparently have
never examined/verified their packages.
And how many of them do
rely on this feature and are falsely deceived?
Without running into any symptoms? As in requesting uid 25, but
getting 325 and not noticing it? ;)
If your package works with plain useradd -r, that's OK, the use
that. If not, then fedora-usermgmt does *not* save your day. Even
worse: It may look localy as if it does and when deployed to users
your package will boom.
I agree with the first part, although it does not even try to achieve
what fedora-usermgmt attempts at. But default fedora-useradd is
just like plain useradd, so no "boom".