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On Friday, November 25, 2016 11:39:15 PM EST Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> I could see a use-case for someone wanting to install a given daemon or |
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> server with a specific user and/or group. I'm not sure this is the right |
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> approach (nor do I know what is), but I think we have room to think |
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> about a solution; ideally one that is dead-simple to implement and |
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> doesn't have a ton of edge-cases. |
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> What is QA's current policy on user/group creation, btw? |
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Years ago there was talk/discussion of having some list/database of UID/GID[1] |
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[2], so that we have consistent assignment. Arch seems to be the only distro |
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thus far who has produced such a list[1], but seems to be outdated and not |
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maintained. Also seems to deviate from some UID/GID numbers RedHat uses for |
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example[2]. Arch 78 for KVM group, RedHat uses 36. |
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While there are many reasons people do not care about UID/GID, and arguments |
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could be made that it might be better to have them vary on systems and be |
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unique. Though some things there are already common UID/GID across distros. |
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I think in the long run, surely for anyone managing lots of systems. It is far |
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better to have a consistent standard list of UID/GID including names. Maybe |
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other distro's will adopt and become more of a standard. |
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1. http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&w=2&r=1&s=Assigning+unique+system+uid%2Fgid |
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+for+new+&q=b |
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2. http://marc.info/?t=117034194400005&r=1&w=2 |
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3. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database |
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4. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/ |
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Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.5/html/Installation_Guide/sect- |
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System_Accounts.html |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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