From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:38:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d51d668c1f3720ef8235060a92a22c16bd2ede49.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76000f9a-31ac-f652-797a-d7494edac176@uls.co.za>
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Hi, Jaco.
On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 21:04 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> Looking at the new eclasses for acct-user and acct-group.
>
> These enforce that a group and user id should be set.
>
> This is not a requirement for enewuser nor enewgroup.
>
> As a further discrepancy, the user eclass requires >0 for the IDs,
> whereas the checks in acct-user and acct-group is for >= 0.
>
> Would it be ok to suggest that we allow -1 (or 0, but that could be
> confused with the root user/group) in acct-user and acct-group to
> specify "no specific id, please allocate dynamically"?
>
I've just pushed the patch permitting -1. Enjoy!
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-01 19:04 [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users Jaco Kroon
2019-08-01 20:01 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-08-01 20:22 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-08-02 16:33 ` Mike Gilbert
2019-08-01 20:47 ` Michał Górny
2019-08-02 9:14 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-08-02 9:53 ` Michał Górny
2019-08-02 15:46 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-08-02 15:58 ` Michał Górny
2019-08-02 16:24 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-08-02 17:06 ` Michał Górny
2019-08-04 16:22 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-08-06 11:41 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-08-07 15:48 ` Michał Górny
2019-08-08 6:52 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-08-08 8:42 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-08-08 10:04 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-08-03 0:53 ` James Cloos
2019-08-17 20:38 ` Michał Górny [this message]
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