On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 23:45 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
I'm not quite sure I'm ready to bring this to the FPC for a
vote, but
I've been working on a modified version of Ville's draft:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway/UsersAndGroupsDraft
While this is more complicated, I think it more adequately covers the
corner cases of adding users and groups. Thoughts?
I am not convinced by your classification of cases:
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* The user/group does not exist on the system
* The user/group exists from a previous package creating it
* The user/group is a normal user, overlapping the namespace (e.g.
amanda)
* The user/group is pre-created by the administrator with a
specific UID/GID
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IMO, this is only covers small subset of
* user/group does/does not exist on the system
* user/group has a privileged/non-privileged uid/gid
* user/group needs a privileged uid/gid
* user/group needs a fixed/doesn't need a fixed uid/gid
* user/group is meant to be used locally/network-wide
Ralf