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On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 4:23 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 02:35 +0100, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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> > Modifying an existing user is a bad default and makes Gentoo |
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> > special because it is common for system administrators to make |
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> > modifications to user (i.e. putting an user into another service's |
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> > group to allow that user to access service in question) and it |
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> > would be unexpected to see these changes reverted during normal |
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> > world upgrade (which could break services). |
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> Not modifying an existing user is a horrible default that has already |
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> bricked one system (by removing /dev/null). So, over my dead commit |
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> access. |
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As the eclass maintainer, would you be willing to merge a similar |
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patch that enables user modifications by default, but provides |
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sysadmins a way to disable it? |
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I have a feeling that there will not be a consensus on the default |
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behavior, and I could see that getting escalated to council. However, |
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it might be nice to provide people with the option in the meantime. |
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