From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72372158003 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2657B2BC02B; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:59:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AACB3E08BF for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:59:29 +0000 (UTC) From: Ulrich Mueller To: James Cloos Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Alec Warner Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: allow -1 for ACCT_USER_ID and ACCT_GROUP_ID in ::gentoo In-Reply-To: (James Cloos's message of "Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:49:28 -0500") References: <6109f0b12899a0db92bf92d20f696bb0e54a0458.camel@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:59:18 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ed0a3f17-67d3-47c1-8f0a-3fa05b338f8a X-Archives-Hash: a5f211de71de02f90d5a27580456efa9 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain >>>>> On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, James Cloos wrote: >>>>> "UM" == Ulrich Mueller writes: UM> Also, why would one allocate UIDs in the 500..999 range (1000 is fine, UM> actually)? Gentoo always had UID_MIN=1000 and SYS_UID_MAX=999. > why do you thing gentoo is everyone's first or only dist on their > network? > or even on any given box? I was specifically asking about Gentoo infra there. > forcing existing boxen to change just because a new dist is added > is also unacceptable. > for me though, it would be enough if there is something i can add to > make.conf to ensure that the acct-user and acct-group builds avoid the > ranges i already use. > that may also work for others. UIDs in the range SYS_UID_MIN..SYS_UID_MAX (i.e. 101..999) were always used for dynamic allocation of system accounts. GLEP 81 hasn't really changed anything there, except that the ebuild will now suggest an ID to try first. Ulrich --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFDBAEBCAAtFiEEtDnZ1O9xIP68rzDbUYgzUIhBXi4FAmGmEhYPHHVsbUBnZW50 b28ub3JnAAoJEFGIM1CIQV4uXr8IALBX6EjwX+LSc9FZhPX+ZaG0nM4T9NYoshfW jGjbbhYyNgT9JRB5ss7oV9pEZpDaeTQmU+LxdukQQItPVkE85UcAPQ/jWSQyjOe4 MbXdwHY6LIk8sGuL/nOqS6wY4LeliNzCew1RJtG1VMj0jxfKBg+cr/uhQXMWbPAp UdYOQvIkv6F6+AwiK4iqwGO6iFvlamy2yxp/p+eO+tCO+TzvOSlPLX5Lwpu3p36Z JN3imWqkV9DT5HLxXpAzKqa84N3rwbgAxmgc32oIsY5HrBpznKem66QAoxNjKSvn alqIFaYEnRowQQYAmsKtIfBzq3vJrOsH6fLBAcLQXdgwnnMSuIw= =fPtS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--