uids for daemons on a spin

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 08:03:07 UTC 2008


On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:17:14 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> 2008/8/4 Ricky Zhou <ricky at fedoraproject.org>:
> >> Googling for "uid policy fedora -selinux" (or redhat) does not yield
> >> anything particularly interesting.
> > Searching around on the wiki, I found the following pages:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/UsersAndGroups
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/UserCreation
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry
> 
> Thanks for the pointers! The docs on fedora-groupadd / useradd seem to
> be just what I have been looking for.
> 
> Except that it doesn't seem to work - both on F7 and F9 I get

No word from you on whether you configured it for static gid/uid
allocation.

> <curious>Is this toolchain in use?

Yes. It's usage is controversial, though, as it's considered non-trivial
and non-intuitive by some.




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