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A long time ago (May 2003), on gentoo-core, a discussion was held as to |
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a consistant way to add new users as required by ebuilds for daemons. |
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The solution agreed upon was that all users/groups that people need |
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added should be placed in CVS in gentoo-src/eid_database/{passwd,group}. |
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Then enewuser/enewgroup could then be used in conjuction with that data |
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to provide details in /etc/{passwd,group}. |
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The primary reason for the data files was to keep track of low numbered |
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system uid/gid values, so that we didn't have conflicts, and also so |
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that we didn't have the ugliness of useradd everywhere in the tree. |
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However, this knowledge seems to have just been forgotten along the way. |
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In an effort to clean things up, I'll be filling a batch of bugs shortly |
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tracking instances of useradd/groupadd and trying to extract data for |
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the eid_databases from all existing instances of enewuser/enewgroup. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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E-Mail : robbat2@××××××××××××××.net |
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Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 |
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ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 |
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GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 |