One that I know needs to be added, but I never got around to was a user
"cluster" and group "cluster". Currently heartbeat may be the only ebuild
that uses it, but it certainly is vague enough to be generally useful.
You may also want to see if this could be added to some docs somewhere. When I
went looking for it, I don't know if I ever found it documented somewhere.
--Iggy
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 04:43 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> A long time ago (May 2003), on gentoo-core, a discussion was held as to
> a consistant way to add new users as required by ebuilds for daemons.
>
> The solution agreed upon was that all users/groups that people need
> added should be placed in CVS in gentoo-src/eid_database/{passwd,group}.
>
> Then enewuser/enewgroup could then be used in conjuction with that data
> to provide details in /etc/{passwd,group}.
>
> The primary reason for the data files was to keep track of low numbered
> system uid/gid values, so that we didn't have conflicts, and also so
> that we didn't have the ugliness of useradd everywhere in the tree.
>
> However, this knowledge seems to have just been forgotten along the way.
>
> In an effort to clean things up, I'll be filling a batch of bugs shortly
> tracking instances of useradd/groupadd and trying to extract data for
> the eid_databases from all existing instances of enewuser/enewgroup.
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