Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:15:40PM +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> It must be solved on a *per site* basis because the generally reserved
> space for fixed uids is too small (0-100).

so the purpose of this tool is to aid packages that *require* a fixed
uid/gid. But then the package by default acts like simple useradd and
99.99% of installs just reflect that.

Isn't this a contradiction? Either the packages do not really need a
fixed uid/gid or the current deployment defaulting to useradd is
bogus.

> I solved the problem for *me* in a way which can be useful for others
> too and does not have technical drawbacks.

Only as long as no one configures the system and it defaults to plain
useradd. The same would apply to bash being redirected to zsh iff a
certain env var were set. Wouldn't break anything in the default
config, but would not be an argument to keep this behaviour.

> >> > # 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!
> > ...
> > I was just following the README which comes with the package ...
> 
> Ooops, sorry. You just found a bug in the documentation. Thx for the
> report. In the meantime, please see

Well, the fact that the core operation of this (old) package was
documented wrongly should give some hint on how many
users/packagers/admins have been reading it.

I think fedora-usermgmt tries to solve a problem that in today's
Fedora either does not exist or is not solvable by this method.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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