Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Enrico Scholz]

Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> writes:

>> >> > But for whatever its worth let's raise the fixed/non-fixed
>> >> > cross-over from uid/gid 100 to 200 for F8 or F9.
>> >> 
>> >> I suggest 500-999; should not break LSB more than the 100-200 idea. But
>> >> reuid'ing normal users is much easier than doing this for services.
>> >
>> > We can only mess with below 500.
>> 
>> to be more exact: below 100
>
> You do seem to contracdict yourself, is it now 500-999 or below 100 ;)

you and notting are wanting to break the LSB by using an area which must
not be used for fixed uids. I outlined an alternative which breaks LSB
too but is much less painless on most systems.


>> When my shadow-utils patch gets accepted, shadow-util's '--hint' option
>> can be used too.
>
> That's just fedora-usermgmt merged upstream, right?

basically, yes. See

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231525
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231540

There are missing some options to allow customization at repository
level, but I will wait for a response to these two tickets first.


> So it will have the same flaws like fedora-usermgmt

About which flaws are you speaking? The example in the documentation
which misleaded you, should be fixed. And since applied upstream or in
RH shadow-utils, it will not be "proprietary" anymore.



Enrico