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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> feedback is welcome ... i got bored last nite so i decided to stop putting it |
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> offf :P |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html |
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> -mike |
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> gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
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Looks good Mike, although I'd like to propose an addition. In terms of |
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the local site override its proposed that the ebuild checks for the |
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existance of a /etc/portage/accounts/[group|user]/<name>.xml before |
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adding the account. This prevents gentoo overriding site defaults, but |
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is only useful in the situation where there are only a few site specific |
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accounts that are local to the machine. |
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What would be handy is if we could define extra variables that reserve |
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sections of UID and GID space. This would help in situations where |
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there are a large number of accounts that aren't stored in the usual |
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password, shadow and group files (e.g. NIS, LDAP). |
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In its simplest form there could be two variables MAX_AUTO_UID and |
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MAX_AUTO_GID that live in /etc/make.conf or the proposed accounts.xml |
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file that set an upper bound on gentoo assigned UIDs and GIDs. A useful |
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default here could be 500 which is the LSB value |
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(http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.3.0/gLSB/gLSB/uidrange.html). |
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A more complicated implementation could exclude ranges of UIDs and GIDs |
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using something like UIDS_EXCLUDE=xxxx-xxxx, or UIDS_EXCLUDE=>500. In |
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the case of the former variable, by allowing multiple instaces of these, |
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blocks of UID and GID space could be reserved. |
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Baz |
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