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
next prev parent 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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