[Bug 165314] Review Request: kismet -- A WLAN detector, sniffer and IDS

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Summary: Review Request: kismet -- A WLAN detector, sniffer and IDS


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165314





------- Additional Comments From enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de  2005-08-18 09:20 EST -------
> > >   (breaks some displaying in vim).
> > 
> > I tested it and it seems that there is no difference between %var and
> > %{var} in vim.
> 
> That's because it isn't recognized as an existing base macro. Try %{_var} or
> %{_localstatedir} and you'll see a different color.

really, there is absolutely no difference between these variants. An
'vim /tmp/kismet.spec' gives

		      http://ensc.de/kismet.png

(vim-enhanced-6.3.071-3)


> > I do not see an alternative as I need consistent uids across different
> > systems.
> 
> I'm not saying I'm against any fixed uid/gid scheme, just that I
> don't really like adding a dependency on an external package instead
> os using plain useradd/userdel.

I could do it with %scriptlets also, but with errorhandling and
other features it would be very complicated. And somehow, I dislike
scriptlets with >100 lines...

I imported http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserCreation also,
which explains this.


> Ok; copied http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageUserRegistry to
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry and updated it.

That page is definitely missing some information (which I don't know),
as the names there simply cannot have uids 1 to 12. I guess there is a
fixed value automatically added by the additional user management
tools like 200 or 300? It should definitely be added to that page.

ok; I imported the other related pages from the fedora.us wiki

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserCreation
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageDynamicUserCreationConsideredBad


Some information are outdated but these are minor issues only and I do
not have time now to update it.



> From there, I'd really prefer simply putting the full real uid/gid
> to that page and use plain useradd with it in packages. Maybe a
> discussion for fedora-packaging list?

There was a recent discussion but without a result. Summarized, there
were three parties:

* those, who want really fixed UIDs (and ignore problems with existing
  systems)
* those, who want semi-static UIDs (the fedora-usermgmt way)
* those, who do not want a usercreation with deterministic UIDs

http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2005-July/msg00000.html


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