On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:32:14AM +0100, Teddy Hogeborn wrote: > Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> writes: > > This looks like a question for policy rather than the NIS package > > since coordination with things like adduser seems at least desirable > > so I'm reassigning the bug there. > Actually, no. For this proposal, no cooperation with adduser is > needed; adduser will work the same as always using the same number > ranges. Right. That is precisely the reason want need to cooperate with adduser. > > My instinct is that this is probably something that is best handled > > by the local administrator since having it work effectively requires > > more coordination between machines than is likely to be achived > > automatically but I've not considerd the issues too deeply. > Yes, of course, but a lot of configuration is needed to get NIS up and > running anyway. What I am asking for is for the *default* in the NIS > package to not be changed when this change makes it more difficult to > allow NIS-exported groups. Obviously, you can create NIS exported groups, it's just that you can't do it in exactly the way you want to. > I don't think it's that strange since I am > just asking for Debian not to change the default upstream value. The > current nis package's change of the MINGID value to 1000 serves no > purpose that I can see. The purpose it serves it to address bugs like 58881, avoiding collisions between groups created locally by adduser on a system and groups exported via NIS. > Noone needs to wait for debian-policy before changing their packages. > The way to change the Debian policy is to change the workings of the > relevant packages (in this case just "nis") and then report this fact > to debian-policy as an agreed-upon policy by the maintainers in > question. Unfortunately, this affects any package which creates a group since that's the range those groups come from. If things were changed such that the 100-999 range were split into a 100-499 local range and a 500-999 exported range that would be addressed and I'd have no problem with making the change you request. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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