non fedora-usermgmt user creation

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 09:38 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> Enrico Scholz wrote:
> 
> >mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org (Mike McGrath) writes:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>[... fedora-usermgmt ...]
> >>0 packages in core use it AFAIK.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Fedora Core does not need fedora-usermgmt because it can use the 100
> >uids which are available for static assignment.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>We're re-inventing the wheel
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Please tell me the re-invented technology which allows to create >100
> >system-users with the same, predictable uid at every package-installation
> >and on every (Fedora Extras) system.
> >
> >
> >
> >Enrico
> >  
> >
> Walk me through this then, I use fedora-usermgmt to create a user for my
> nagios package.  What uid does it select, how does it select that UID,
> and when you install it on your machine, how does it have the same UID
> that it did when it was installed on my machine?
Then Enrico also might explain how to propagate this UID to the NIS/LDAP
server hosting a network's network-wide uids.

Ralf