On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:29:50PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, > > Some time ago William asked me to move UID/GID assignments from wiki [1] > to something more accessible. I've finally gotten around to draft > something, and I'd like to hear your comments about it. The idea is to > keep a whitespace-separated record format file in api.gentoo.org repo. > > This is mostly inspired by Fedora's format, specifically the ability to > specify both UID and GID for matching user/group on the same line. > I've also decided not to attempt to specify disjoint Linux and FreeBSD > users/groups on a single line. Instead, they are specified separately > and defined by providers (as suggested by Ulrich). > > Sample, along with big comment explaining the file format, below.
I'm not sure how I feel about whitespace delimiters for this. withno
further specification, it would make these two lines completely valid:
root 0 0 baselayout
bin 1 1 baselayout
some notes here
I propose using a colon like we do in /etc/passwd:
root:0:0:baselayout:
bin:1:1:baselayout:some notes go here
Thoughts?
William
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