Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes:
> Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> skribis: > >>> Maintain historical mappings from user/group names to UIDs/GIDs, perhaps >>> in some file in /etc, where entries are added but *never* automatically >>> removed. When allocating UIDs/GIDs, we would avoid any UIDs/GIDs in the >>> range of those mappings. > > If we’re just worried about ID allocation, we could keep state in, say, > /etc/previous-uids, and feed that as input to the (gnu build accounts) > allocation code. Sounds good to me, or at least better than the other available options. Thanks, Mark
