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Hello all, |
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As some of you may know, I spent this past summer working on an |
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implementation of GLEP 27[1]. While my scripts aren't quite ready for |
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production use yet, I wanna get the ball rolling by asking devs who |
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maintain packages that use the current enewuser() and enewgroup() |
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functions from eutils.eclass to document their desired account settings |
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in one central location. |
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I have a list of all packages in the tree that currently use either of |
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those functions[2]. If you maintain one of these packages, I'd |
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especially appreciate your feedback. |
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The proposed storage format[3] is what my scripts (creandus, formerly |
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known as dynusers) currently use. To me, the format seems simple and |
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sane enough, but I would definitely appreciate any and all feedback on |
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it, since it's much easier for me to change it now than to change it |
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later. |
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Summarized, the format is: |
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For each profile dir (e.g. profiles/base, profiles/default-linux, etc), |
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a new subdirectory, called accounts is created as necessary. Inside |
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that is a file called defaults, containing default uid/gid ranges, |
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shells, etc for the given profile. Also, there are two directories, |
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user/ and group/, which contain files named after the users and groups |
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to be added. Those files contain more specific uid/gid info, etc. |
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All the files are handled like other files in cascading profiles. Each |
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line in the file is either a shell-style comment, or of the form: |
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"key: value". The keys are: uid, shell, home, groups, comment, and gid. |
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The main point of this thread is to get lots of feedback and, hopefully, |
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acceptance of this proposed format. As this is basically what is already |
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outlined in GLEP 27, I don't think a new GLEP is in order, but if others |
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do, I'll draft one. |
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The main webpage for my Summer of Code project[4] has links to more |
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information about the project in general, and there are some posts on my |
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blog[5] regarding it. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html |
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[2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~pioto/creandus/enewusergroup-pkgnames.txt |
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[3] http://dev.gentoo.org/~pioto/creandus/doc/datafiles.html |
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[4] http://soc.pioto.org/ |
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[5] http://blog.pioto.org/category/dynusers/ |
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Mike Kelly |
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