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On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 12:59:18PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, James Cloos wrote: |
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> >>>>> "UM" == Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> writes: |
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> UM> Also, why would one allocate UIDs in the 500..999 range (1000 is fine, |
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> UM> actually)? Gentoo always had UID_MIN=1000 and SYS_UID_MAX=999. |
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> > why do you thing gentoo is everyone's first or only dist on their |
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> > network? |
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> > or even on any given box? |
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> I was specifically asking about Gentoo infra there. |
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> > forcing existing boxen to change just because a new dist is added |
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> > is also unacceptable. |
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> > for me though, it would be enough if there is something i can add to |
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> > make.conf to ensure that the acct-user and acct-group builds avoid the |
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> > ranges i already use. |
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> > that may also work for others. |
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> UIDs in the range SYS_UID_MIN..SYS_UID_MAX (i.e. 101..999) were always |
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> used for dynamic allocation of system accounts. GLEP 81 hasn't really |
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> changed anything there, except that the ebuild will now suggest an ID to |
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> try first. |
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This is the part of this that I don't understand. If we aren't enforcing |
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an ID, why do we care which ID to try first? It seems to be an |
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unnecessary step since users can pick the IDs they want by putting |
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settings in make.conf. |
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William |
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