On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:58:01PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:41:00PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > > >>If an admin misconfigures their site, all bets are off, regardless. > > > >But the above forces him to configure the app. > > configuration is *optional*. > > >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? > > I've only taken the maintainers' (Enrico Scholz) word for it. I trust > he knows what he's talking about. OK, I installed it on FC6/x86_64. I picked the README that suggests: > | fedora-useradd 42 -d /home/joe joe > > will create the user 'joe' having '/home/joe' as homedirectory. The > number '42' specifies an UID which is added to a configured, > system-wide base. By default, this base is '300' so that 'joe' will > have the uid 342. My "joe" landed on uid slot "5214". That would actually break when I turn on LDAP on this system, as there is a user on this slot. Furthermore the package describes itself as: > This package provides wrappers around useradd, userdel, groupadd and > groupdel to allow predictable but configurable uids/gids. The fallback, e.g. the default operation, be it either useradd -r or something I don't understand yet, certainly is not predictable. I guess that less than 1 permille of Fedora users even know that there is such a system to configure, and even less do configure it, so we can really assume that all packages using this method don't really need predictable uid/gids ... -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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