Hi, We're still using 500 as our [UG]ID_MIN in /etc/login.defs, but I'm looking to change that to be more in line with what everyone else seems to do.
One thing I found while looking at the sysusers code was that the only values read from /etc/login.defs were SYSTEM_[UG]ID_MAX and they were only read a compile (or rather configure) time, not at runtime. While I appreciate sysusers is intended primarily for bootstrapping /etc, I guess the general consensus is to move package pre/post scripts over to use sysusers instead anyway. Thus the tool should really check /etc/login.defs at runtime if it's present before falling back to its defaults. Those defaults could be set from a compile time check of login.defs too. So, I propose the following: 1. Modify configure to check /etc/login.defs for SYSTEM_[UG]ID_MAX but fall back to [UG]ID_MIN-1 if not found. 2. Modify sysusers.c to do the same check at runtime If I cook up a patch will that be accepted? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
