On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:24:21 +0100, SC (Simone) wrote:
Hello,
can you please explain that a bit further? I don't think I understand, I see this reference at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserCreation:
You've quoted the relevant part. Here:
Another solution might be semi-static UIDs, which are relative to a system-wide value and unique for the entire Fedora Project. The current (experimental) implementation uses the file /etc/fedora/usermgmt/baseuid to configure the value to which the relative UID would be added. As an example, when /etc/fedora/usermgmt/baseuid contains "30000", the user 'joe', with the semi-static UID 23, will get the final UID 30023 (30000+23)."
So, if you drop using fedora-usermgmt, you cannot keep the relative (!) uid 33 that has been registered for it. 33 is "amandabackup":
$ rpm -qd setup /usr/share/doc/setup-2.8.36/COPYING /usr/share/doc/setup-2.8.36/uidgid <-- (!)
Package "setup"'s %changelog mentions a lot of activity related to reserving system uids/gids.
The file /etc/fedora/usermgmt/baseuid contains 300, so I'm guessing the correct setup for Bacula would be to set 333 as the uid/gid. Is that correct?
You would first need to have uid 333 registered/reserveed as a fixed uid.
The previous version used fedora-usermgmt (so uid 333) but did not remove the user and directory;
Well, then it isn't following the guidelines, which mention the userdel scriptlets. ;)
that is pointless anyway because you don't remove the directory only if you have it dynamic.
However, if the directory contains files created at run-time, the package should not "rm -rf" those files when uninstalling, so it could remove the empty dir.