non fedora-usermgmt user creation

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 6 20:57:16 UTC 2006


>>for a package that has not yet been installed.  Having every package
>>that requires a user register it seems un-reasonable since the number
>>of UID's is finite and the number of packages that create users is
>>large.
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>On my machines, I reserve the uid-range from 63000 to 63999 for
>fedora-usermgmt and I am optimistically that this range is enough
>for the next years.
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>If we ever exceed it, fedora-usermgmt can be easily extended to use
>another range for special uids resp. uids greater a certain value.
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>>The problem I have with the UserCreation page in the wiki is it provides
>>no non fedora-usermgmt creation alternatives.
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>Some macro-mania was added some days ago, which allow a '--without
>fedora-usermgmt' switch.
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How many packages use fedora-usermgmt and where did it come from?

    -Mike




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