* Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: acct-user/... modifies existing user sometimes
@ 2019-12-14 21:16 99% ` Michał Górny
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From: Michał Górny @ 2019-12-14 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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On Sat, 2019-12-14 at 14:47 -0600, The Bit Pit wrote:
> acct-user/mythtv modifies the existing user if that user is not logged
> in. Mythtv has been around for years and users have created specialized
> configurations for the mythtv user. They do not like changes to the
> mythtv user when upgrading.
>
> A couple of solutions:
>
> 1)
> the ebuild does not depend on acct-user/mythtv when the user already
> exists. This prevents both the changing and deletion of the existing user.
>
> What is the gentoo way to discover a preexisting user? Repoman does not
> like anything I tried using egetent passwd mythtv
>
> 2) Add something to the acct-user/mythtv to (conditionally) prevent any
> change if there is a preexisting user on the system. The acct-user
> unmerge would also check that the user was not modified since it was
> created by acct-user. This seems like a lot of work.
>
Users are supposed to create a local acct-user/mythtv override if they
want to use a custom setup.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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