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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 27: Revisited (aka dynusers/creandus)
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:10:53
Message-Id: 4521E267.4060005@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 27: Revisited (aka dynusers/creandus) by Mike Kelly
1 Mike Kelly wrote:
2 > Summarized, the format is:
3 >
4 > For each profile dir (e.g. profiles/base, profiles/default-linux, etc),
5 > a new subdirectory, called accounts is created as necessary. Inside
6 > that is a file called defaults, containing default uid/gid ranges,
7 > shells, etc for the given profile. Also, there are two directories,
8 > user/ and group/, which contain files named after the users and groups
9 > to be added. Those files contain more specific uid/gid info, etc.
10
11 I hope to god they cascade like everything else ?
12
13 Also I don't see why we would have this in the profiles as opposed to
14 somewhere in /etc/?
15
16 Have people expressed an interest in per-profile mangling of uid/gid ?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 27: Revisited (aka dynusers/creandus) Mike Kelly <pioto@g.o>