> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:00:41 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > > 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 ... On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:34:35PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > For the different behaviour you would first need to enable fedora-usermgmt > via the alternatives system. Which rather proves that it is useless. You either have the default unpredictable behaviour, or you need to configure global resources *per host* or *per site*. The default behaviour which accounts for 99.99% of all users is that people don't even know there is something to configure. And I probably made a very conservative guess. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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