On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:41:00PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:09:34AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>Axel Thimm wrote:
>>
>>>The original intent of fedora-usermgmt was to deal with packages
>>>requiring *fixed* uid/gid, so the fallback to useradd -r will be
>>>breaking that package, or that package didn't need a fixed uid/gid in
>>>the first place.
>>The intent is to implement (quasi?) fixed uid/gid assignment within the
>>100-499 space, provided admin's configured it, so they'd have consistent
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>uid/gid assignment across their enterprise.
>
>and add: "provided the admins configured it _the same_ across their
>enterprise."
If an admin misconfigures their site, all bets are off, regardless.
But the above forces him to configure the app. BTW I tried to find how
fedora-usermgmt is supposed to fallback to simple useradd -r operation
and didn't find anything. Are you sure it does that?
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