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.
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