[Fedora-packaging] Possible UsersAndGroupsDraft

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jun 15 04:41:43 UTC 2007


Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> I'm not quite sure I'm ready to bring this to the FPC for a vote, but
> I've been working on a modified version of Ville's draft:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway/UsersAndGroupsDraft
> 
> While this is more complicated, I think it more adequately covers the
> corner cases of adding users and groups. Thoughts?

Seems overly complicated. I would rather just have useradd fail
for system users if the user/group exists outside of the predetermined
range. (And, yes, use static ids less than 500 for everything.)

Bill




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