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question about UID ranges
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Package: adduser
Version: 3.102
Severity: normal
Is it possible to add a low priority debconf question so that adminstrators
can preseed what the uid ranges should be, for dynamically allocated user
accounts and groups?
Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii passwd 1:4.0.18.1-7 change and administer password and
ii perl-base 5.8.8-7 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
adduser recommends no packages.
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Closing bug report, Marc and Stephen raised valid issues with this
wishlist bug report.
Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:19:07PM +1000, Geoff Crompton wrote:
>> The use case I have in mind is for a system administrator doing new
>> installs. If they can set this option in a preseeding file, then
>> whenever they do a new install, this setting will conform to what they
>> need on their site.
>
> Preseeding is not the only way to roll out configuration changes to a
> multiude of systems. Additionally, a site running a lot of systems
> that would warrant pre-seeding of this value would be better off with
> a centrally managed directory service.
True, and we do have that at my sight. But because we're not perfect, we
still have some local accounts being created (and really unfortunately
we have central accounts created at the start of the 1000 uid range).
Stephen Gran wrote:
> The major problem with changes like this is that adding something to
> adduser means adding something to debian-installer. I know they are
> unhappy about adding new debconf questions, even low priority, during
> the install. Since there are better ways to do this (you can ship hooks
> in a custom d-i image, I believe), I am inclined not to do this.
>
> Take care,
Thats fair enough, I wasn't aware of the impact on d-i, I thought d-i
would invoke the adduser package. I'll look into the custom hooks.
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