remove fedora-usermgmt?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Mar 5 20:41:00 UTC 2007


Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:09:34AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Axel Thimm wrote:
>>
>>> The original intent of fedora-usermgmt was to deal with packages
>>> requiring *fixed* uid/gid, so the fallback to useradd -r will be
>>> breaking that package, or that package didn't need a fixed uid/gid in
>>> the first place.
>> The intent is to implement (quasi?) fixed uid/gid assignment within the 
>> 100-499 space, provided admin's configured it, so they'd have consistent 
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> uid/gid assignment across their enterprise.
> 
> and add: "provided the admins configured it _the same_ across their
> enterprise."

If an admin misconfigures their site, all bets are off, regardless.

-- Rex




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