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A while back I asked about reserved UIDs and GIDs and Mike mentioned |
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that there was something in the works: |
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> ive worked out the details with nick about portage support i just |
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> havent passed it on to a few core people for comments so that i |
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> can write the GLEP |
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> -mike |
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The recent CVS upgrade brought this up again as it adds a new group and |
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user 'cvs' using enewgroup and enewuser (the UID and GID are selected |
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based on the next one available). |
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Given the fact that sites with large user bases will often have many |
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UIDs/GIDs that aren't continuous, it would be a good idea if these |
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functions were coded to check for the existence of a file that contained |
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reserved (or allowed) ranges of UIDs/GIDs. This would allow maximum |
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generality in portage, whilst giving end users maximum flexibility. |
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I'm willing to code this if its deemed a useful idea. |
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Baz |
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