Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 23:47 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:21 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le mardi 06 mars 2007 à 15:07 -0600, Mike McGrath a écrit :
> > > I've even offered my preferred way which 
> > > would work for everyone; make it transparent and replace useradd.  
> > > Anything less than that is a hack.
> > 
> > Or bite the bullet and reserve a new fixed uid range
> 
> Been done. Add 300 to these:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry
> 
> If anyone has special requirements for system UID ranges, they can
> pre-create users *before* installing packages.
This is inapplicable, because the system being used to administrate
users might not be accessible/available during installation of a
package.

>  Presumably in this
> situation LDAP or something is being used anyway.
In my case it's yp/nis - it's only available when the network is up,
which doesn't apply in certain situations (eg. offline CD-installs).

Ralf