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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Brendan Tildesley <btild@mailbox.org>, 36508@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 12:16:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blac9989.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuo645sh.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>>> Maintain historical mappings from user/group names to UIDs/GIDs, perhaps
>>> in some file in /etc, where entries are added but *never* automatically
>>> removed.  When allocating UIDs/GIDs, we would avoid any UIDs/GIDs in the
>>> range of those mappings.
>
> If we’re just worried about ID allocation, we could keep state in, say,
> /etc/previous-uids, and feed that as input to the (gnu build accounts)
> allocation code.

Sounds good to me, or at least better than the other available options.

     Thanks,
       Mark




  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-17 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-05  8:36 bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily replacing with SDDM ison
2021-04-13 13:24 ` bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service Brendan Tildesley via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-13 20:51   ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-14  4:31     ` Brendan Tildesley via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-15 18:09       ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-14 10:32     ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-14 12:21       ` Brendan Tildesley via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-15 14:24         ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-15 18:30       ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-15 20:05         ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-15 22:22           ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-16 15:18             ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-17 16:16               ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2021-04-15 23:04           ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-16 15:14             ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-15 18:35       ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-15 18:58       ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-16 10:42         ` Maxime Devos
2021-04-17 16:28           ` Mark H Weaver
2022-09-18 12:22 ` bug#36508: [DRAFT PATCH] Stable allocation of uids, by keeping a historical mapping Maxime Devos

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