From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA4B51382C5 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2021 09:23:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDC7CE0963; Mon, 4 Jan 2021 09:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B159E0940 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2021 09:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <809f727af51f7dcd9aec97a800c0ecd89f60eaa6.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:23:45 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20210104013558.20072-1-whissi@gentoo.org> References: <20210104013558.20072-1-whissi@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 071dafdc-5912-4b13-a9df-bfae21518f93 X-Archives-Hash: 2774481db346508e394011007b2e5b4d On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 02:35 +0100, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > Modifying an existing user is a bad default and makes Gentoo > special because it is common for system administrators to make > modifications to user (i.e. putting an user into another service's > group to allow that user to access service in question) and it > would be unexpected to see these changes reverted during normal > world upgrade (which could break services). Not modifying an existing user is a horrible default that has already bricked one system (by removing /dev/null). So, over my dead commit access. -- Best regards, Michał Górny