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

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Thursday 29 January 2004 07:25, Drake Wyrm wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:32:33PM -0500, in
> <1075343553.23631.2.camel@localhost>, Donnie Berkholz
>
> <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
> > It might be a good idea to keep system users to one user per
> > package, instead of generic things, so everything has just one
> > purpose. For example, user "heartbeat" instead of "cluster."
>
> Agreed. Daemons are like users without bodies. They need unique names.
> I can see undesired consequences of, for example, forcing every server
> package in net-ftp to run as the user 'ftp'. If you really want to get
> freaky with the idea though, the usernames assigned to daemons should
> be locally configurable. Think this one is worthy of a GLEP?

Basically I think we need a way to just say "ensureUser heartbeat" or 
"ensureGroup heartbeat" which will add a user/group with that name if 
not available through nsswitch. It should probably call an 
adduser/addgroup script to add the user/group. Ebuilds should not depend 
on specific numbers. If there are ebuilds that want the existence of the 
user to exist at compilation time we might need to have a way to do it 
before compiling (and before installation too). Applications that want 
to know the numeric uid/gid should be patched to retrieve it based on a 
username / groupname instead.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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