On 11.05.2007 14:04, Axel Thimm wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:40:21PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
> 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.
I understand, I thought you wanted to have an official registry for
uid/gid mappings, but you just want to know which user/groups exist at
all.
Yes.
[...]
But maybe the following can make you happy: A script that greps
through the CVS and extracts these for you automatically.
If that works: sure. But we should not force sysadmins to download the
whole cvs and run such a script -- we instead should autogenerate and
upload it somewhere IMHO.
But that's not something we would mention in the guidelines.
Agreed.
CU
thl