Re: [gentoo-dev] Assigning unique system uid/gid for new ebuild

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Martin Lesser writes:
> Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o> writes:
> > Unfortunately, we don't have a good answer to that question just yet.
> > The plan is to generate a table of already-taken uid/gid numbers
> > ... My best suggestion at the moment is to see what numbers debian is
> > using for your package, check to see if they conflict with anything we
> > have (take a look at the above "database" as well as the passwd and
> > group files at
> > http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/),
> > and go from there.
>
> 1. Several uid's/gid's differ from other distris (debian i.e. assigns
> 2. In /etc/passwd from baselayout there are several users predefined
> 3. If one runs openldap for authentification and nss one don't want to
> 1. The predefined entries in /etc/passwd should be reduced to exactly 1
> 2. The current ebuilds which assign _fixed_ uids/gids could be fixed so
>
> I don't see any benefits of developing and/or maintaining a predefined
> /etc/passwd with more than exactly one entry for root.

/etc/passwd and /etc/group must not be managed by UID/GID!

Each package may ask for a set  of user names and group names, and the
local system administrator can assign whatever UID/GID to these names.

Note  that  dependending  on  the  underliying system,  you  may  have
different  constraints  on  these  UID/GID.  Like  having  ID<100  for
auto-su-able or things like that.

For example, tar stores the names  of the owner and group of each file
in its archives.


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