Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From:	Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To:	Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc:	William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] user.eclass: die if hard coded UID or GID is already in use
Date:	Tue, 28 May 2019 00:44:28
Message-Id:	`CAJ0EP41Ux6OPd4srELuChEamCgTiEaKNTU_0msfW-gD2M0xgtQ@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] user.eclass: die if hard coded UID or GID is already in use by William Hubbs

1	On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 11:45 AM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
2	>
3	> If a package hard codes the UID or GID when adding a user or group to
4	> the system and that UID/GID already exists, we should abort rather than
5	> changing the UID/GID.
6
7	These functions have behaved this way for a long time.
8
9	What problem are you trying to solve here?

Subject	Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] user.eclass: die if hard coded UID or GID is already in use	"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>