On 10 January 2018 at 08:50, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:46 AM, Jan Kurik <jku...@redhat.com> wrote: .... >> The new mapping for nobody:nobody would be implemented in two redundant ways: >> * as a static allocation in /etc/passwd and /etc/group managed by setup.rpm >> * dynamically provided by the nss-systemd module (by compiling systemd >> with -Dnobody-user=nobody -Dnobody-group=nobody). >> > > Two questions: > > 1. Why nobody:nobody instead of nobody:nogroup? I've seen the latter > in use in several distributions. > * For note, we use this in Mageia: > http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/setup/tree/group > * Debian and Ubuntu also define it this way. > > 2. For existing systems, would renaming the nobody:nobody user to > oldnobody:oldnobody work instead? The uid would be preserved, which > should keep the mapping sane, and it would make it more obvious that > it's old, rather than using weird underscores. > > In general, I support this change because the two nobody users made > things confusing for me and many other people. Simplifying this would > also harmonize things with everyone else, which helps for portability > of things. :) > >
I think all of the above would be good additions to this. Having dealt with multiple large deployments where 99:99 caused different problems but then were hard-coded into being fixed if something is Fedora/RHEL based... a lot of people updating to F28+ would have problems... and a lot of people update vs fresh install. > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
