Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:30:34AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> writes:
> > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 22:12 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:08:02PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> >>> Why do we need fixed uids at all? is it so difficult to use
> >>> getpwnam() ??

Indeed, most of the packages we're talking about (if not all) don't
need a fixed uid/gid at all.

> >> Because the name isn't stored on the filesystem; just the number.
> 
> > It does not matter unless the application must be able to run
> > with /etc/passwd being absent.
> 
> Yes, it does matter, because if you uninstall and reinstall the package
> then any files that might have been owned by that UID should still be
> owned by that UID.  I run into this quite often with the database
> packages for instance.

What databases are you talking about? Because neither mysql, nor
postgresql do that horrible things you say they would.

> (Oh, you didn't want your mysql update to wipe out your database?)

That *is* plain *FUD*.
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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