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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:35:13
Message-Id: ee24eb83-4430-40ff-07d0-577bc188457d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management by Rich Freeman
1 On 01/27/2017 01:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 >
3 > This doesn't really seem like a problem though. Just have a table
4 > somewhere (wiki?) to track who is using what UID/GID and encode those
5 > defaults into the ebuild that creates those users.
6 >
7
8 It should be possible to have two different users with the same UID in
9 the tree, just like we can have two different packages that install the
10 same file. Eventually somebody will notice a file collision, and then we
11 add a blocker per usual.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>