On 08/03/2026 10:36, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Really, people
Do read the stuff that people have written in the past.
If you keep asking others what is already written, it's a loss of time
for everybody.
Samuel
Pardon me if I'm butting in and seem impertinent but I was wondering
whether Devuan was encountering any similar problems and I found this
thread on their forum https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7600 -
where the opensysusers' systemd-sysusers utility was ignoring local
configuration ranges for UIDs and GIDs and instead using compiled in
values. It seems to me that the failure to create the group referred to
in the Debian bug report could have arisen because of a clash with
between what it wanted to do and previously allocated values. Now it
seems that Devuan could or is switching away from that package to a more
POSIX-ish shell script using adduser/addgroup. Perhaps the Hurd might
look to do the same?
Stephen
