Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Enrico Scholz]

Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> writes:

>> > I think that's a packaging error.  From my point of view, once a
>> > user is created it should never be deleted.
>> 
>> Happens automatically e.g. during a reinstallation. E.g. have /srv/data
>> with TiB of data owned by service user A with dynamic uid 234. Something
>> foobars your system (disk error in system partition, somebody deleted
>> /lib, perhaps intrusion) and after reinstallation the user A has suddenly
>> an uid of 198.
>
> You never heard of backups and disaster recovery did you?

System does not contain anything which can not be recovered by kickstart
and a cfagent run. Why should I create a backup of potentially
corrupted/rootkitted libraries/binaries?



Enrico
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