non fedora-usermgmt user creation

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 8 19:51:41 UTC 2006


> I do not understand the sense of this discussion: when a scriptlet uses a
> program, a corresponding Requires(...) MUST exist for this program. There
> exist exceptions (e.g. for generating cache-files) but none of them apply
> here.

For me the discussion isn't about requires or not, its about
fedora-usermgmt.  I mean, up to all this time we've been using useradd
(provided by shadow-utils).  The main purpose of this thread was to
bring about discussion before the FESCo takes a look at it.  Which
will be in a few weeks.  I'm still not convinced that:

   A) there is a problem that needs solving
   B) that this solved that problem.

> We are speaking about Fedora Extras where 'Requires: fedora-usermgmt'
> can be fulfilled. This is a very minimal and non intrusive package
> without bad (technical) sideeffects.

Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.  I've never run into a
UID issue regarding system users on any of my machines.  I'm not
saying they can't, but how often does it happen to the rest of us out
there?

             -Mike




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