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| From: | Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-*.eclass: Allow dynamic UID/GID assignment via -1 | ||
| Date: | Wed, 07 Aug 2019 17:29:11 | ||
| Message-Id: | bfe39b9b-3566-4bb9-b52e-ba7b8f830847@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-*.eclass: Allow dynamic UID/GID assignment via -1 by "Michał Górny" |
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| 1 | On 8/7/19 1:10 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
| 2 | > |
| 3 | > Using '999' was also suggested (as the first dynamic |
| 4 | > UID/GID) but it would cause issues for people enabling |
| 5 | > ACCT_*_ENFORCE_ID. To avoid this, '-1' does not trigger collision |
| 6 | > checks. |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Feel free to proceed with this, I'm just curious: what's the problem |
| 10 | with 999 and enforced IDs? |
| 11 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | > +# |
| 14 | > +# Overlays should set this to -1 to dynamically allocate GID. Using -1 |
| 15 | > +# in ::gentoo is prohibited by policy. |
| 16 | > |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Should say "UID" in the user eclass. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-*.eclass: Allow dynamic UID/GID assignment via -1 | "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> |