Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 01/27/2017 12:54 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> We approved GLEP 27 (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:27) in 2004 but
> never implemented it. I'm wondering what are the explicit requirements
> that we have for user and group management?
>
> What I'm really wondering is, instead of the proposal in GLEP27, if we
> couldn't simply handle users like any other package.

I put together a draft of the "fixed UIDs with random fallback" model:

  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Mjo/GLEP:User_packages

If we decide to fix UID/GID management, I think it would be a lot easier
to implement that draft than GLEP:27. I would be interested in hearing
for which use cases GLEP:27 would be preferable.

If anyone wants to play with the draft or work on a reference
implementation, I can move this stuff to a public namespace.