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From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@×××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] uid/gid request for net-misc/openntpd
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:27:17
Message-Id: 20190912002709.GC2322@bender.it-sys.cpp.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] uid/gid request for net-misc/openntpd by "Paul B. Henson"
1 It was suggested to use uid/gid 321 for this purpose? Any objections to
2 this selection?
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4 If not, how do I get
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6 https://api.gentoo.org/uid-gid.txt
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8 updated to mark it as requested or reserved?
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10 Thanks...
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13 On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 01:09:40PM -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote:
14 > Per https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693050 openntpd is going to
15 > switch to a dedicated openntpd user/group rather than sharing the ntp
16 > user/group with net-misc/ntp.
17 >
18 > Could I please get a static uid/gid assigned for this? For now, I'm just
19 > going to hardcode them in the ebuild, and transition it to the new
20 > acct-user/acct-group mechanism at a later point.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] uid/gid request for net-misc/openntpd Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>