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From: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Revisiting GLEP 81 (acct-*) policies (reviews, cross-distro syncing)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:05:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30a13c94-55e4-6a8a-d10e-ba3b802fb93a@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_kbewv2Px074PE=L-1aaW6pGL3osttLQ1nbbBisn801Yg@mail.gmail.com>


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On 12/10/19 1:47 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> Having UIDs chosen completely at random seems fairly non-optimal.
> Suppose you're building containers/etc and then bind-mounting in
> persistent storage (/var/lib/mysql and so on).  Wouldn't it be nice if
> the default were that mysql would get the same UID on every build?  I
> guess you could provide an initial /etc/passwd on every fresh build
> but it just seems like an extra step.

I was more thinking along sys admins being able to modify their acct-
ebuilds with static numbers. If you're bind-mounting already, why not
bind your portage (or local overlay) to children as well. 2 minute more
work for those who need it, but a lot easier to everyone else who don't
care :)


-- juippis



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-10 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-09  8:17 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Revisiting GLEP 81 (acct-*) policies (reviews, cross-distro syncing) Michał Górny
2019-12-09  9:44 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-12-09 10:00   ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-12-09 16:54 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-12-09 17:47   ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-12-09 18:02     ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-12-09 18:48       ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-12-09 20:10         ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-12-10 14:36           ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-12-09 21:48 ` Alec Warner
2019-12-10  5:28   ` Michał Górny
2019-12-10  5:44 ` Joonas Niilola
2019-12-10 11:47   ` Rich Freeman
2019-12-10 12:26     ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-12-10 12:44       ` Rich Freeman
2019-12-10 13:25         ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-12-10 13:48           ` Rich Freeman
2019-12-10 16:05     ` Joonas Niilola [this message]
2019-12-10 16:25       ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-12-10 13:34   ` Michał Górny
2019-12-10 16:13     ` Joonas Niilola
2019-12-10 16:17       ` Michał Górny
2019-12-10 14:50 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-12-10 15:04   ` Michał Górny
2019-12-10 15:54   ` Rich Freeman

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