From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 11:10:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP43J-nuBopP9w9Q86vMpNq_7uCMkJ9cXjsKmfBDdY97UkQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <809f727af51f7dcd9aec97a800c0ecd89f60eaa6.camel@gentoo.org>
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 4:23 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
As the eclass maintainer, would you be willing to merge a similar
patch that enables user modifications by default, but provides
sysadmins a way to disable it?
I have a feeling that there will not be a consensus on the default
behavior, and I could see that getting escalated to council. However,
it might be nice to provide people with the option in the meantime.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-04 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-04 1:35 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 2:41 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04 3:17 ` Alec Warner
2021-01-04 3:18 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 14:46 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 15:24 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 15:55 ` David Seifert
2021-01-04 16:18 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:28 ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:30 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:34 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:38 ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:50 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:56 ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:56 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04 16:54 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04 7:32 ` Robin H. Johnson
2021-01-04 16:45 ` [gentoo-dev] " James Cloos
2021-01-04 18:07 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 18:20 ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 18:38 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 18:23 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 18:27 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 18:32 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 9:23 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2021-01-04 14:05 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:10 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2021-01-04 16:14 ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:20 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 18:11 ` Fabian Groffen
2021-01-08 18:14 ` Michał Górny
2021-01-08 18:23 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 18:32 ` Michał Górny
2021-01-08 15:48 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 16:03 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 16:29 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 16:50 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 17:06 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 18:10 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 18:31 ` Michał Górny
2021-01-08 19:15 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 17:16 ` Michał Górny
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