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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: 37423@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37423: Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM causes a really bad loop
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2ykj69r.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftksvv4e.fsf@gnu.org>

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Hi Ludo'!

Ludovic Courtès 写道:
> However, looking at the allocation routines in (gnu build 
> accounts), I
> think that this would forcefully set ‘gdm’ to 900/900 on 
> existing
> installations, even if 900 is already used by another account:

I'm already using GID 900 (and others) for my own nefarious ends. 
How would this even deal with that?  Am I doomed to forever jump 
around, dodging new hard-coded GIDs?

> (Or we could use much lower UID/GID numbers, which are less 
> likely to be
> taken…)

‘Likely’, eek ;-)

So now you're coming after my ‘25’ vmail user, eh.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-19 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-15 22:51 bug#37423: Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM causes a really bad loop Jan
2019-09-17  4:45 ` Timothy Sample
2019-09-17 11:16   ` Jan
2019-09-19 21:22   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-19 21:47     ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-09-20  9:40       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-20 11:03         ` Julien Lepiller
2019-09-20 13:25         ` Timothy Sample
2019-09-20 21:10           ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-19 22:00     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]

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