Re: [gentoo-dev] user management mitigation

2011-12-04 Thread Leho Kraav
On Sunday, December 4, 2011 4:50:02 PM UTC+2, Leho Kraav wrote: > > * fork my own user.eclass from v1.17, modify it to use --root $ROOT when > calling shadow stuff So first thing I'm running into is replacing getent with something that supports chrooting. Only immediate thought for users is usi

Re: [gentoo-dev] user management mitigation

2011-12-04 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/04/2011 06:44 AM, Leho Kraav wrote: > So after a reading through a bunch of stuff [1][2][3][4][5], what I'm going > to do for the goal above is: > > * move to sys-apps/shadow trunk [6] > * fork my own user.eclass from v1.17, modify it to use --root $ROOT when > calling shadow stuff > *

Re: [gentoo-dev] user management mitigation

2011-12-04 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 12/04/2011 09:44 AM, Leho Kraav wrote: > So after a reading through a bunch of stuff [1][2][3][4][5], what I'm going > to do for the goal above is: > > * move to sys-apps/shadow trunk [6] > * fork my own user.eclass from v1.17, modify it to use --root $ROOT when > calling shadow stuff I th

Re: [gentoo-dev] user management mitigation

2011-12-04 Thread Leho Kraav
So after a reading through a bunch of stuff [1][2][3][4][5], what I'm going to do for the goal above is: * move to sys-apps/shadow trunk [6] * fork my own user.eclass from v1.17, modify it to use --root $ROOT when calling shadow stuff * stick my user.eclass into myoverlay/eclass/ * # echo "l

Re: [gentoo-dev] user management mitigation

2011-12-03 Thread Leho Kraav
Mike, can you offer a tip on how to "trivially hook into whatever craziness" with the help of user.eclass? My goal is to have regular enewuser and enewgroup work for ROOT=/xyz. But I don't currently have a clue what would *not* be a horribly broken way to do this. It seems like I perhaps should

Re: [gentoo-dev] user management mitigation

2011-10-21 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:47:55PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > with the previously proposed/accepted GLEP 27 stalled, i'm looking into > mitigating the current suckiness of enew{user,group}/egetent. the first step > is simple: let's split these funcs out of eutils.eclass and into a dedicated

Re: [gentoo-dev] user management mitigation

2011-10-20 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > with the previously proposed/accepted GLEP 27 stalled, i'm looking into > mitigating the current suckiness of enew{user,group}/egetent. the first step > is simple: let's split these funcs out of eutils.eclass and into a dedicated > eclass.

[gentoo-dev] user management mitigation

2011-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
with the previously proposed/accepted GLEP 27 stalled, i'm looking into mitigating the current suckiness of enew{user,group}/egetent. the first step is simple: let's split these funcs out of eutils.eclass and into a dedicated eclass. this makes it trivial for people externally to override the