Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:54:00 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:30:34AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Simo Sorce 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.

Once and for all: if they require a fixed (= constant) uid/gid and still
use fedora-usermgmt, the packages are broken.