On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/27 Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Guys, we have some big problems with groups. >> >> ( 9/31) installing policykit [---------------------] >> 100% >> groupadd: GID 102 is not unique >> useradd: unknown group policykit >> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit' >> chown: invalid user: `policykit' >> chown: invalid user: `policykit:policykit' >> chown: invalid user: `policykit' >> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit' >> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit' >> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit' >> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit' >> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit' >> >> Taking a peek at /etc/groups I saw this: >> >> kvm:x:101: >> tex:x:102: >> >> We really shouldn't be creating groups above 100, should we? Even more >> of a problem is explicitly specifying 102 in the policykit install >> script. These are reserved for user use. Your input is definitely >> welcome on this. > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11589 > > We have user UIDs starting from 1000, but GIDs only from 100. > The most correct would be to have user-created GIDs start from 1000 too, > but then users that already have created 1xx groups should recreate > them and re-chgrp all files/dirs :-/
Mind filing a FR for that? I believe it would require changes in shadow... but we need to be careful to warn all users to modify their custom groups. It will be a headache, but I agree we should do it
