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| From: | Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3] glep-0081: User and group management via dedicated packages | ||
| Date: | Sat, 22 Jun 2019 17:34:45 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20190622173435.GB12825@undo-autkin | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3] glep-0081: User and group management via dedicated packages by Brian Evans |
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| 1 | On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 09:53:46AM -0400, Brian Evans wrote: |
| 2 | > What significance will such numbers have when a daemon uses a new |
| 3 | > UID/GID and really doesn't care what it is? Why do we have to go |
| 4 | > through the effort of assigning fixed IDs at random? |
| 5 | |
| 6 | One reason not mentioned by mjo: this paves the way to resolution of |
| 7 | very old frustrating problem with user/group creation when |
| 8 | cross-compiling entire system from scratch. |
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| 10 | See https://bugs.gentoo.org/541406 |
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