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Thank you Michał, much appreciated. |
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I've in the meantime to make progress on my side picked something which |
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was not in use in ::gentoo, so I can move forward, but it's be really |
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good to have the below feature anyway going forward. |
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On 2019/08/01 22:47, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 21:04 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> Looking at the new eclasses for acct-user and acct-group. |
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>> These enforce that a group and user id should be set. |
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>> This is not a requirement for enewuser nor enewgroup. |
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>> As a further discrepancy, the user eclass requires >0 for the IDs, |
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>> whereas the checks in acct-user and acct-group is for >= 0. |
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>> Would it be ok to suggest that we allow -1 (or 0, but that could be |
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>> confused with the root user/group) in acct-user and acct-group to |
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>> specify "no specific id, please allocate dynamically"? |
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>> Use case: I'm building some experimental packages in an overlay, and I |
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>> really don't care what the UID and GID values are, I just need something |
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>> unique on the host I can use to avoid running the service as root. |
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>> Guessing I could just manually useradd -r but then again ... if I do |
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>> later submit these into the main tree (or other packages) then it |
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>> becomes a problem, and maintaining acct-{user,group}/* outside of main |
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>> tree could conflict with main tree at a later stage ... either way, |
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>> having some way to say "I honestly don't care, just give me a random |
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>> number" is probably a good thing. |
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> I'll look into adding support for '-1' in a few days. However, I'm |
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> going to add QA checks to prevent it from getting into ::gentoo first. |
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Assuming I understand that correctly, you're happy with -1 values going |
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into overlays, but not into ::gentoo? |
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Would you mind to explain the motivation for that? |
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I'm also happy to take a whack at generating a patch series for you for |
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the eclasses themselves (not familiar with the QA check code yet), |
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including sorting out the >0 vs >=0 discrepancy, if you're happy with that? |
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Kind Regards, |
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Jaco |
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