From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 45571@debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Subject: bug#45571: Support stable uids and gids for all accounts
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 11:03:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn2io013.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210102160415.30fcb7e8@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Sat, 2 Jan 2021 16:04:15 +0100")
Hi Danny,
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
> It's easily possible to recreate /etc/passwd from scratch if the uids are
> always specified in <user-account>s and thus /etc/passwd would not need to
> be persistent state anymore. Right now everything from /etc/passwd except
> the uid and the comment is already specified in <user-account>.
>
> So Guix can indeed simply do away with the persistent state of
> /etc/passwd--that's why I suggested specifying the uids in the first place.
I don’t think it can: UID/GID allocation is stateful by nature because
you don’t want to reuse a recently-used ID right away. See the
allocation strategy in (gnu build accounts).
Ludo’.
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2020-12-31 18:18 ` bug#45571: Support stable uids and gids for system accounts in a container Jason Conroy
2021-01-01 14:47 ` bug#45571: Support stable uids and gids for all accounts Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-01 16:26 ` Jason Conroy
2021-01-01 17:36 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-01 16:20 ` Leo Prikler
2021-01-01 17:50 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-01 18:44 ` Leo Prikler
2021-01-01 20:22 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-02 0:25 ` bug#45571: Fwd: " Leo Prikler
2021-01-02 1:40 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-02 3:10 ` Leo Prikler
2021-01-02 14:02 ` Jason Conroy
2021-01-02 14:29 ` Leo Prikler
2021-01-02 14:52 ` Jason Conroy
2021-01-02 15:35 ` Leo Prikler
2021-01-02 15:58 ` Jason Conroy
2021-01-02 14:50 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-02 15:03 ` Jason Conroy
2021-01-02 15:18 ` Leo Prikler
2021-01-02 1:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-04-07 7:13 ` bug#45571: Support stable uids and gids for system accounts in a container Brendan Tildesley via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-06-10 6:02 ` Arun Isaac
2021-01-02 15:04 ` bug#45571: Support stable uids and gids for all accounts Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-02 15:25 ` Leo Prikler
2021-01-06 10:03 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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