>>>>> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Alec Warner wrote: > - If Gentoo adds an acct-user/foo user, and that user already exists > on my system with the wrong UID: the eclass dies[0].
I don't think that's correct. The eclass will just use the already existing UID then (except for the very few acct-user packages that define ACCT_USER_ENFORCE_ID). > - If Gentoo adds an acct-user/foo user, with uid=12345, and that uid > is assigned to a user on my system already, the eclass dies. Similar to above, the eclass will dynamically allocate another UID that is free. > - Some environments are very old, and so real users have unexpected > uids; this includes Gentoo itself. > - Gentoo (the community) used to allocate UIDs to devs in the > 500-1000 range and we have 17 active developers with UIDs in that > range. So for example if we allocate one of these UIDs to an acct-* > package; that package will not be installable on woodpecker without > modification because those UIDs are already taken. See above. Also, why would one allocate UIDs in the 500..999 range (1000 is fine, actually)? Gentoo always had UID_MIN=1000 and SYS_UID_MAX=999. Ulrich
