Am 22.07.2014 22:47, schrieb Colin Walters: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014, at 09:43 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> >> I am pretty strongly against this. Making this administrator >> configurable apepars very wrong, this really should be a decision for >> the distribution vendor, and that's it. > > You list one concern below, are there others? > >> We shouldn't design a system >> that comes to completely different results if you boot it up with and >> without /etc populated... > > If that's the only issue, surely we could just have it in the > /usr/share/factory dir? > > As far as the rationale for having it administrator configurable - I > think the idea is more that upgraded systems have a login.defs file with > a min of 500, so humans in the midrange are still identified as such. > > This is called out on > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/1000SystemAccounts > > Making the boundary configurable also allows some users to stay with the > old boundary of 500, if they wish: > > Because /etc/login.defs is %config(noreplace), upgrades will retain > the boundary value 500, and nothing should break. > New installations in setups where the UIDs are centrally allocated > (e.g. using LDAP) from 500 could be likewise configured to use the > boundary value 500 by creating /etc/login.defs in a kickstart %pre > script
there are *a lot* of systems out there installed long before systemd was introduced and you can't safely dig around on dozens of machines and re-assign the owners of files there are data far away from /home don't fix things which ain't broken all that machines will *never* need dynamic user-id's abvoe 500
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