Re: [gentoo-dev] EID database and entries getting to baselayout

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:43:53PM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> A long time ago (May 2003), on gentoo-core, a discussion was held as to
> a consistant way to add new users as required by ebuilds for daemons.

Could we have a FEATURE flag or somesuch to disable autocreation of
users/groups?  enew{user,group} could abort the build with a message
to the effect of "create user foo with uid x and rerun emerge".

For sites using NIS or LDAP to manage accounts, having ebuilds mucking
with the local password and group files is a pain that has to be undone
after each emerge.  Or they have to maintain copies of ebuilds in overlay
directories with the enew{user,group} calls commented out.

In our case, our account database is shared among Solaris, IRIX, Mac OS X,
BSD, and Linux boxes, so I can't have ebuilds using static ID numbers, as
there's a good chance they're already in use.

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