Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:47:47PM -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

That is exactly the issue with this approach: These uid/guid have been
silently reserved.

And even worse:

# smart install fedora-usermgmt
# /usr/sbin/fedora-useradd 42 delme
# id delme
uid=5214(delme) gid=5214(delme) groups=5214(delme)

That is in the middle of my user accounts!
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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