[Fedora-packaging] Re: Second user/group handling draft

[Enrico Scholz <enrico scholz informatik tu-chemnitz de>]

Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info> writes:

> So I'm trying it in a different way: say I'm a sysadmin and I want to
> have the same static UIDs and GIDs on all my systems for *all* Fedora
> packages that create UIDs or GIDs during install. I need a list of
> groupnames and usernames such packages might create to prepare a
> modified setup package.
>
> So we need to have a kind of list like this somewhere:
>
> ||package||groupname||username||
> ||clamav||clamavfoo||clamavbar||
> ||zaptel||zaptelfoo||zaptelbar||

Such a list exists already:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry

Additional requirements (full 'useradd' commandline, delay of 7-14 days
before pushing into repos) are given in

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/UsersAndGroups?action=recall&rev=5


Using wrappers like 'fedora-usermgmt' will make life of admins easier
because they have to configure their system only once instead of updating
their 'setup' package regularly.



Enrico