On 01/27/2017 12:54 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > We approved GLEP 27 (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:27) in 2004 but > never implemented it. I'm wondering what are the explicit requirements > that we have for user and group management? > > What I'm really wondering is, instead of the proposal in GLEP27, if we > couldn't simply handle users like any other package.
I put together a draft of the "fixed UIDs with random fallback" model: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Mjo/GLEP:User_packages If we decide to fix UID/GID management, I think it would be a lot easier to implement that draft than GLEP:27. I would be interested in hearing for which use cases GLEP:27 would be preferable. If anyone wants to play with the draft or work on a reference implementation, I can move this stuff to a public namespace.
