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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:19:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170127191916.72b70739@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9558d41c-17c0-4bbd-e2f8-02575c6d0ecd@gentoo.org>

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:54:07 -0500
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:

> That satisfies most of the requirements that *I* have for user and
> group management on the system. Compared to the GLEP:
> 
>   * EUSERS + EGROUPS: replaced by (R)DEPEND.
>   * Defining Accounts: anyone can add a new package already.
>   * FEATURES=noautoaccts: use package.provided instead.
>   * Local Overrides: use an overlay.
>   * users-update: cleanup can be done with --depclean now.

+1

except package.provided which will probably be a mess to handle, but I
dont see why disabling it is a good idea: I'm assuming package will
misbehave at runtime if the user/group is missing

note that i dont think it fixes ROOT!=/ missing users though but
probably paves the way for it


  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-27 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-27 17:54 [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-27 18:19 ` Alexis Ballier [this message]
2017-01-27 18:52 ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-27 19:35   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-27 19:53     ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-27 20:09       ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-27 21:23         ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-28  3:02           ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2017-01-28  2:37       ` [gentoo-dev] " Patrick McLean
2017-01-28  3:20         ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-28  4:21         ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-29  1:56           ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29  2:22             ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-29  2:48               ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29  2:54               ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29  3:23                 ` Gordon Pettey
2017-01-29  3:36                   ` M. J. Everitt
2017-01-29  3:42                   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 10:03                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-01-29 11:16                       ` Michał Górny
2017-01-29 17:19                       ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29  3:05             ` M. J. Everitt
2017-01-29  8:26             ` Alan McKinnon
2017-01-29 17:05               ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 17:22                 ` A. Wilcox
2017-01-29 19:31                   ` james
2017-01-29 22:07                 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-01-29 22:20                   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 22:30                     ` Alan McKinnon
2017-01-29 23:04                       ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-30 14:25                         ` Alan McKinnon
2017-01-30 16:29                           ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-30 18:05                             ` Patrick McLean
2017-01-30 18:22                               ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-30 18:43                                 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-02-03 14:51                                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
2017-02-03 19:29                                   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-02-04  8:50                                     ` Christopher Head
2017-02-04 15:02                                       ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-02-04 18:03                                       ` Martin Vaeth
2017-01-28 11:28         ` [gentoo-dev] " James Le Cuirot
2017-01-28 22:54           ` Patrick McLean
2017-01-28 18:13         ` A. Wilcox
2017-01-28 19:32           ` James Le Cuirot
2017-01-28 20:34             ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-28 21:29               ` James Le Cuirot
2017-01-29 17:16             ` A. Wilcox
2017-01-29 17:34               ` James Le Cuirot
2017-01-27 19:45   ` Gregory Woodbury
2017-01-28 11:32   ` Tom H
2017-01-27 21:15 ` Michał Górny
2017-01-28  0:10   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 22:13 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 23:34   ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-01-29 23:45     ` Michael Orlitzky

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