From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix 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 Message-ID: <87y2ykj69r.fsf@nckx> References: <20190916005154.41b74430@interia.pl> <871rwf5y49.fsf@ngyro.com> <87ftksvv4e.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iB4U5-0007vt-D4 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:01:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iB4U3-00077h-OE for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:01:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47720) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iB4U2-000779-59 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:01:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iB4U2-00022T-3Y for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:01:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-reply-to: <87ftksvv4e.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 37423@debbugs.gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Ludo'! Ludovic Court=C3=A8s =E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A > However, looking at the allocation routines in (gnu build=20 > accounts), I > think that this would forcefully set =E2=80=98gdm=E2=80=99 to 900/900 on= =20 > existing > installations, even if 900 is already used by another account: I'm already using GID 900 (and others) for my own nefarious ends.=20 How would this even deal with that? Am I doomed to forever jump=20 around, dodging new hard-coded GIDs? > (Or we could use much lower UID/GID numbers, which are less=20 > likely to be > taken=E2=80=A6) =E2=80=98Likely=E2=80=99, eek ;-) So now you're coming after my =E2=80=9825=E2=80=99 vmail user, eh. Kind regards, T G-R --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEfo+u0AlEeO9y5k0W2Imw8BjFSTwFAl2D+oAACgkQ2Imw8BjF STyrFw//QAFsnW/p0b6CKEiEfn2MWBefiOkvz/S95sIDXx6mbWKO6grCMjVP9U0Q A/zeiZc1oLjr183mBTVirKdlsnFqdvRlDk/D4ITV/BQV7MXGk8P1G2lmT/xCQOGi 0JdQuYwR38VvfUqx642al/mRaGlQqyuQM+LW9qBFBrtP4VTksbJReA7nTRbBp3zq MHoBbkKDOkAaUclLzvbpfI0uKtK9DIE7MCgwTuYZzELqauUp099FsbE3liUBeTuG C24eeM7MUW+WJM1FvhFqRHwB4pFR+XtNLxzVq915hS6JS2vdWg5T0fjVInJgE/nI bwoQw+uF68TuH/8lfy+t6AlhraKFMZCHkewQYDY6StQl66dGQAKApZXXMqPDNZBO PW3RPt/PQxX2FSP/F9A7m3PzUxixMWeS6sdGR/Zxt5Oh1U4mlIAJLol32QDcVXh1 /EZDljopB4FIoqhghvIa86RNq1rCRDXPYtDI69m+UmGIErlsmtavqjgqr+T2wVIW MftP2t5iMD2Lg5pWhV8Zk4/ZGG4TIMfpIG7GbzfcJ4ZCRk4f2MxdW/IsTOxiR9nf kN2XEFP0nSa8ARVDx7kIoZcwYZ+dy3UA5455jolI91DJgX/K+VmV7LFAfHWznATA fnlYfUN/ayP811VX1y7bai6HRQgESxkmFqyyZMRuLpWOo8D9O3w= =L4+t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--