On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 4:23 AM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 02:35 +0100, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > > Modifying an existing user is a bad default and makes Gentoo > > special because it is common for system administrators to make > > modifications to user (i.e. putting an user into another service's > > group to allow that user to access service in question) and it > > would be unexpected to see these changes reverted during normal > > world upgrade (which could break services). > > Not modifying an existing user is a horrible default that has already > bricked one system (by removing /dev/null). So, over my dead commit > access.
As the eclass maintainer, would you be willing to merge a similar patch that enables user modifications by default, but provides sysadmins a way to disable it? I have a feeling that there will not be a consensus on the default behavior, and I could see that getting escalated to council. However, it might be nice to provide people with the option in the meantime.
