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One that I know needs to be added, but I never got around to was a user |
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"cluster" and group "cluster". Currently heartbeat may be the only ebuild |
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that uses it, but it certainly is vague enough to be generally useful. |
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You may also want to see if this could be added to some docs somewhere. When I |
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went looking for it, I don't know if I ever found it documented somewhere. |
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--Iggy |
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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 04:43 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> A long time ago (May 2003), on gentoo-core, a discussion was held as to |
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> a consistant way to add new users as required by ebuilds for daemons. |
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> The solution agreed upon was that all users/groups that people need |
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> added should be placed in CVS in gentoo-src/eid_database/{passwd,group}. |
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> Then enewuser/enewgroup could then be used in conjuction with that data |
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> to provide details in /etc/{passwd,group}. |
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> The primary reason for the data files was to keep track of low numbered |
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> system uid/gid values, so that we didn't have conflicts, and also so |
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> that we didn't have the ugliness of useradd everywhere in the tree. |
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> However, this knowledge seems to have just been forgotten along the way. |
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> In an effort to clean things up, I'll be filling a batch of bugs shortly |
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> tracking instances of useradd/groupadd and trying to extract data for |
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> the eid_databases from all existing instances of enewuser/enewgroup. |
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