Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Simo Sorce]

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 11:40 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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.

+1
Without flame intentions, I think fedora-usermgmt is simply a bad idea
in any possible case.

Simo.