Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 02:11:28PM +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> > Since we can't count it, it needs to be weighted on a case by case
> > basis.
> 
> Why not use 'fedora-usermgmt'?

Argh, you removed the context. Because fedora-usermgmt can't solve the
issue of fixed uid? And because the smei-static, but almost always
random method of fedora-usermgmt would be of no help?

Either it makes sense for a package to have a fixed uid/gid or
not. There is nothing in between, and all fedora-usermgmt does is ship
the packages as random uid allocating pushing any possible problem
with needed fixed uids to the users.

And please don't start again with predictable vs fixed uid. If an
admin really wants a "predictable" uid on his systems for daemon foo
he can useradd -u 666 foo before installing a the package.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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