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From: Jason Conroy <conjaroy@gmail.com>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 45571@debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Subject: bug#45571: Fwd: Re: bug#45571: Support stable uids and gids for all accounts
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 10:03:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABWzUjUZbB==QvXWG-ZVJOj8FTK9zo6oCQZe6b87VN44u=n+0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210102155002.2360e505@scratchpost.org>

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Hi Danny,

On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 9:50 AM Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
wrote:

> > >From the solutions we do have so far, I believe that making user
> > > accounts an explicit part of service configuration (in what shape may
> > > still be up for debate),
>
> Not everything needs to be user configurable.  You suggest having these
> kinds
> of things especially user-configurable as a work-around for them not being
> stable, right?  Or do you want it in general?
>
> I would like to avoid them here, if only needed for that reason.
>
> Is there a need for using custom service UIDs?
> I think if so, that is independent of this bug report, which asked for
> stable UIDs and GIDs.
>

As far as I know, stability is sufficient for me, but Leo raised some cases
where specific values would ease migration. An /etc/passwd seed file seems
like another reasonable way to handle that, but I haven't investigated how
difficult this change would be compared adding new knobs in
operating-system.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-02 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <58174c197a7b42b29927c492d25e28c684d199ea.camel@student.tugraz.at>
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 [this message]
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

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