On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:41:00PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:09:34AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > >>Axel Thimm wrote: > >> > >>>The original intent of fedora-usermgmt was to deal with packages > >>>requiring *fixed* uid/gid, so the fallback to useradd -r will be > >>>breaking that package, or that package didn't need a fixed uid/gid in > >>>the first place. > >>The intent is to implement (quasi?) fixed uid/gid assignment within the > >>100-499 space, provided admin's configured it, so they'd have consistent > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >>uid/gid assignment across their enterprise. > > > >and add: "provided the admins configured it _the same_ across their > >enterprise." > > If an admin misconfigures their site, all bets are off, regardless. But the above forces him to configure the app. BTW I tried to find how fedora-usermgmt is supposed to fallback to simple useradd -r operation and didn't find anything. Are you sure it does that? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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