Hi,
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"?
Use case: I'm building some experimental packages in an overlay, and I
really don't care what the UID and GID values are, I just need something
unique on the host I can use to avoid running the service as root.
Guessing I could just manually useradd -r but then again ... if I do
later submit these into the main tree (or other packages) then it
becomes a problem, and maintaining acct-{user,group}/* outside of main
tree could conflict with main tree at a later stage ... either way,
having some way to say "I honestly don't care, just give me a random
number" is probably a good thing.
Kind Regards,
Jaco
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