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On Saturday 29 May 2004 06:32 pm, Barry Shaw wrote: |
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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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i dont understand ... it already does this ... |
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if /etc/portage/accounts/ files exist they are used ... if they dont, then the |
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global default is used ... you dont have to specify all accounts (unless you |
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use FEATURES=noautoacct) |
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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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that's the point of accounts.xml |
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-mike |
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