remove fedora-usermgmt?

[Steven Pritchard]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 05:26:02PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> And with useradd -r, how do you get the same uid/gid for a package on all
> installations, when you want that?

You create the user ahead of time.  As long as the %pre script looks
like this, there won't be a problem:

  id foo &>/dev/null || \
    /usr/sbin/useradd -r -s /sbin/nologin -c FOO -d /usr/share/foo foo

> You can't think of any environment, where predictable uids/gids make
> sense?

I certainly can't think of such an environment where it doesn't make
*more* sense to either pre-create the user accounts with fixed
uids/gids or just use LDAP/NIS/whatever.

Steve
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