On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:04:53AM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:16:56 -0700, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> > But out of curiosity, why is it difficult to change user IDs on all files? I
> > assume that you control the storage? Isn't it just a chown -R away? For
> > example, for our NIS
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:28:23 +0100, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:
> Hmm, you could do the move per-server, though, at least for the
> network services that publicly can report a different UID/GID pair
> than is advertised on the file system, which is at least true for NFS.
NFSv4, that is. W
Hmm, you could do the move per-server, though, at least for the
network services that publicly can report a different UID/GID pair
than is advertised on the file system, which is at least true for NFS.
Did you look into that, already?
cheers!
mar77i
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:16:56 -0700, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> But out of curiosity, why is it difficult to change user IDs on all files? I
> assume that you control the storage? Isn't it just a chown -R away? For
> example, for our NIS passwd/shadow map we use 6-digit IDs...
Because... users have file
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:32:38PM -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 11/27/2016 10:03 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> >> Well, packages can have files that need to have a specific system
> >> user ownership. That is why the UID/GID database exists, right?
> >> Because the UID baked into th
On 11/27/2016 10:03 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
>> Well, packages can have files that need to have a specific system
>> user ownership. That is why the UID/GID database exists, right?
>> Because the UID baked into the *.pkg.tar.xz has to match
>> /etc/passwd, and systemd-sysusers can't inherently do an
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 09:50:22PM -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 11/27/2016 09:16 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> > There is no such think as "arch expects". It is a default setting in
> > /etc/login.defs that is being used by systemd because it is likely that a
> > devs
> > don't cha
On 11/27/2016 09:16 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> There is no such think as "arch expects". It is a default setting in
> /etc/login.defs that is being used by systemd because it is likely that a devs
> don't change login.defs before building systemd...
Well, packages can have files that need to have a
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 06:31:01PM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:55:48 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> > By convention, Arch expects user UIDs to be greater than 1000.
>
> I understand that.
There is no such think as "arch expects". It is a default setting in
/et
On 11/27/2016 04:04 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 11/27/2016 08:52 AM, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:
>> Yes, arch system users are numbered automatically, but the groups
>> and users you listed are a bit of special snowflakes for systemd.
>> I'm not sure whether remapping them would be possib
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 15:49:33 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
>> [login.defs] might actually help, depending on how well it is
>> enforced. Thanks!
>
> "enforced"? It is the configuration file for useradd. Anything not
> explicitly hardcoded in the UID/GID database (or hardcoded but no
On 11/27/2016 08:52 AM, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:
> Yes, arch system users are numbered automatically, but the groups and
> users you listed are a bit of special snowflakes for systemd. I'm not
> sure whether remapping them would be possible.
AFAIK those systemd users/groups are generat
On 11/27/2016 12:27 PM, Hauke Fath wrote:
>> And, just to mention it for completness, there is
>> /etc/login.defs where you can theoretically adjust those numbers.
>
> This
>
>
> # Min/max values for automatic uid selection in useradd
> #
> UID_MIN 1000
> UID_MAX
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:55:48 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> By convention, Arch expects user UIDs to be greater than 1000.
I understand that.
> There is a list of explicitly reserved system UIDs by repo packages
> here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_D
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 14:52:25 +0100, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:
> What I would recommend to you is to use another range further beyond
> 1000 for your network users and groups because with regard to what we
> established in the first paragraph, those don't seem to qualify as
> system users
On 11/27/2016 07:58 AM, Hauke Fath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what are Arch's conventions for the numeric ranges of system (package)
> user and grop IDs? And can the range be limited?
>
> I am working up to switching a few dozen Debian clients to Arch. They
> have user homes on NFS, and authenticate thro
First of all, any UID less than 1000 is generally considered a system
user/group, I would suspect this tradition or a variation thereof
comes from elder days.
Yes, arch system users are numbered automatically, but the groups and
users you listed are a bit of special snowflakes for systemd. I'm not
Hi,
what are Arch's conventions for the numeric ranges of system (package)
user and grop IDs? And can the range be limited?
I am working up to switching a few dozen Debian clients to Arch. They
have user homes on NFS, and authenticate through NIS. So far, nis
distributes user and group IDs > 5
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