Re: Vitamin D

[Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>]

[snip]
> One of the things it asks for is to create a user id for it.  Now I take
> it blindly creating users on peoples systems is not a good idea no?  The
> policy manual says in cases like this one should ask the co-ordinator for
> this task to assign a uid from a fixed range.  Would Vitamin D share that
> co-ordinator and range?  It would make more sense for a different range of
> numbers to be reserved.  But that reservation has to go into Debian
> policy.

Speaking here as base-passwd maintainer:  If a package like Doom needs a
uid/gid, it should create it's own in one of the available spaces
(100-999 I think, I'd have to check).  If you don't want it to go around
"blindly creating users", then ask permission in the preinst script.

Fixed uid/gid numbers should only be for packages which _really_ need to
have them uniform on all systems running Debian.  I don't think Doom
counts.

--Galen


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