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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3] glep-0081: User and group management via dedicated packages
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 07:37:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa41daac6c84d05126b57e773fbdfa9c59bf59ed.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0e79c92e-8de0-5695-961b-98cbe097c62e@gentoo.org>

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On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 22:21 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 6/9/19 7:39 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > +
> > +All new users and groups must have unique UIDs/GIDs assigned
> > +by developers.  The developer adding them is responsible for checking
> > +for collisions.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > +All user and group packages must define preferred fixed UIDs/GIDs,
> > +and they must be unique within the repository.  The packages should
> > +indicate whether the value needs to be strictly enforced, or whether
> > +another UID/GID is acceptable when the user exists already or requested
> > +UID/GID is taken.
> > +
> 
> Maybe we should loosen this in the case of enforced UIDs. If two
> user-packages truly do require the same fixed UID (for whatever godawful
> reason), then obviously they can't be installed on the same machine, but
> we could otherwise support both in the repository.

I'd rather not permit it up front.  We can revisit this if it ever
becomes really necessary.

> 
> I don't want to encourage people to add such badly-written software to
> the repo, but the alternative is also pretty ugly: if we require the
> UIDs to be unique, and if two packages require the same enforced UID,
> then whoever commits to ::gentoo first will prevent the other guy from
> adding his package later on.

The alternative is to prevent user from installing the second package
without manually fixing his UID/GID table.  This is horrible UX.
I suppose patching one of the packages to use another UID/GID is
probably better.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-13  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-09 11:39 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3] glep-0081: User and group management via dedicated packages Michał Górny
2019-06-13  2:21 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-06-13  5:37   ` Michał Górny [this message]
2019-06-20 13:53 ` Brian Evans
2019-06-20 14:15   ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-06-20 14:32   ` Michał Górny
2019-06-21  5:59     ` Andrew Savchenko
2019-06-21  7:18       ` David Seifert
2019-06-21 12:02         ` Andrew Savchenko
2019-06-21 12:18           ` David Seifert
2019-06-21 13:09           ` Michał Górny
2019-06-21  8:31       ` Jaco Kroon
2019-06-21  6:03   ` Andrew Savchenko
2019-06-22 17:34   ` Andrey Utkin

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