Re: [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users

[Michał Górny]

Hi, Jaco.

On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 21:04 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> Looking at the new eclasses for acct-user and acct-group.
>
> These enforce that a group and user id should be set.
>
> This is not a requirement for enewuser nor enewgroup.
>
> As a further discrepancy, the user eclass requires >0 for the IDs,
> whereas the checks in acct-user and acct-group is for >= 0.
>
> Would it be ok to suggest that we allow -1 (or 0, but that could be
> confused with the root user/group) in acct-user and acct-group to
> specify "no specific id, please allocate dynamically"?
>

I've just pushed the patch permitting -1.  Enjoy!

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Best regards,
Michał Górny