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On 29/01/17 11:05, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 01/29/2017 03:26 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> Can anyone think of an upgrade path for fixed UIDs? That issue |
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>>> aside, I may have convinced myself that fixed UIDs are better. |
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>> The general process I would recommend is that if the ebuild finds |
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>> the user already exists, leave it, it's UID and it's file |
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>> ownerships alone, and keep them as they are. If the user does not |
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>> exist then create it. |
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> That's what I've got it doing now... |
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>> Preferably use a pre-assigned UID/GID so there is some |
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>> consistency with most other Gentoo things out there. |
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> This is the only point we have left to consider. To recap, there |
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> are three approaches to try: |
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> 1 Truly fixed IDs. Every user gets the UID it wants, or it doesn't |
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> get created. The UIDs are all determined beforehand. |
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> 2 Mostly random UIDs, and the few packages that need to specify |
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> one can do so. Usually installation will never fail, but if some |
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> user specifies a particular UID and doesn't get it, we die(). |
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> 3 Mostly fixed UIDs, but with a fallback to random ones if you |
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> don't get the UID you want. Here, everyone specifies their |
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> "preferred" UID, and we try that first. If it doesn't work, you get |
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> the random assignment. |
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You could easily start with #3, and after some years, move to #1. |
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Anyone with a 20 year old Gentoo install (by that time) should expect |
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to have to do very heavy lifting. |
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I for one am more than willing to do whatever shell commands necessary |
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to make all my Gentoo installs agree on UIDs and get #1 now, but I |
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realise most people are not. |
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- --arw |
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A. Wilcox (awilfox) |
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Project Lead, Adélie Linux |
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http://adelielinux.org |
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