On 11.05.2007 14:16, Enrico Scholz wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis fedora@leemhuis.info writes:
So I'm trying it in a different way: say I'm a sysadmin and I want to have the same static UIDs and GIDs on all my systems for *all* Fedora packages that create UIDs or GIDs during install. I need a list of groupnames and usernames such packages might create to prepare a modified setup package. So we need to have a kind of list like this somewhere: ||package||groupname||username|| ||clamav||clamavfoo||clamavbar|| ||zaptel||zaptelfoo||zaptelbar||
Such a list exists already: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry
It misses username and groupname -- those would be needed for the proposed solution. And the list only contains packages that use fedora-usermgmt.
[...] Using wrappers like 'fedora-usermgmt' will make life of admins easier because they have to configure their system only once instead of updating their 'setup' package regularly.
Maybe. But it seems it made lots of people really unhappy, so something is wrong somewhere.
/me prefers not to comment more then the above -- I leave the user/group handling stuff to the packaging committee and trust it to make a good decision
CU thl