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> And now you're changing the subject. You've just claimed that *your* |
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> user's group ownership will be overwritten and when challenged you |
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> present the case of *system* user's group ownership being overwritten. |
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Actually, he showed the rewrite of **system** user (that was modified |
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locally). |
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And, as it already mentioned above, this behaviour violates Gentoo Philosophy |
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of not pretending to be smarter than user and don't dictate them a way to go. |
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So, if the problem is only in the existance of the bug, I can create it |
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tomorrow morning. |
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But it would be great to know that it wont be closed in a minute after with |
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"WONTFIX, works as expected". |
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Also, as already stated, changing the stuff that was modified by user is |
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**prohibited**. |
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P.S. I don't care about your relations with whissi, but let's back to the |
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topic: |
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[big red letters] |
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We should **NEVER** ever rewrite any system configuration made by local system |
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administrator (call it "user" or whatever). Dixi. |
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[/big red letters] |
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Modification of system users and groups are also covered by that user. |
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So, we, actually don't need any changes to disable acct-* things at all and |
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make users to manage all the things by themselves. |
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We need a change that will prevent any changes over **already existing** user. |
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I think we should make it in a manner like: |
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1) when we install acct-pkg for a first time - CONFIG_PROTECT changes, and let |
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user to review. |
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2) when we **reinstall** same package - do **nothing**. Although, I'm not sure |
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here: |
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on the one hand, why should we bother users by merging changes they already |
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did before, |
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on the other hand, it can be useful way to reset to defaults in case if "all |
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this stuff is screwed up". |
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3) when we upgrade acct-package (assuming there was changes) - only allow |
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"positive" changes (group additions), but not negative (dropiing groups), and |
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anyway CONFIG_PROTECT all the changes. |
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Well, there is also "kludgy way": does not globally reimplement anything, but: |
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1) force CFGPROTECT |
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2) perform a "light" modification to only perform "positive" modifications |
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(see above) on users/groups, but no "negatives". |
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It will anyway fix the both issues Whissi and OP had. |
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Best regards, |
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mva |
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