Gary Gendel wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Boyd Adamson wrote: >> >>> The trouble is that there is no way that we can think of all the user >>> accounts of this type that will be needed. imapuser? dirsvr? xmppuser? >>> >>> It's all very well for the some accounts to be system defined and for >>> that to be in the OS source, but third parties will have needs for >>> other, unbundled software. >>> >> And they'll need to have an interactive process to allow the admin to >> choose the uid, since they can't pick one by default - if it's in the >> 0-99 range, Sun could assign it to a system account in the future, >> and if it's in the 100+ range, the site could already have an account >> with that uid. >> >> > I suppose the logical extension would be to allow pkg to recognize that > the required user/groups were previously installed and pick up the > uid/gid from that. If it doesn't find one and the default one is used > by something else, then pick an unused one? The only real issue would > be trying to keep this consistent across machines on the network. > > Gary > >
Note that IPS doesn't use numerical uid/gids; they're names. Thus a user action to create an account for the postgres user, for example, would just do nothing if that account already existed. The issue of picking a unique name still exists, however. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
