Fedora User Management (revisited)

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Sat Mar 10 16:31:38 UTC 2007


Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> writes:

>> I did this. And it was a pain to deal with it. 'fedora-usermgmt'
>> solved this once and forever.
>
> I don't want to seem willing to attack you personally, but if you didn't
> think of synchronizing and rationalizing the uid/gid space, _before_
> installing your shared environment,

Keeping the shared environment alive is a process. Nightly 'yum upgrade'
operations can create previously unknown users which are messing up your
shared /etc/passwd.

I do not have the resources to review every package-upgrade to see
whether new users will be added.



Enrico
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