Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?
On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 03:03:34PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Sat 12 Mar 2022 at 03:01PM +01, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:00:44PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> >> Roland Clobus has put a lot of work & thoughts into reproducible images, so I've
> >> added him to cc: now, so he can comment on this aspect of #1006912.
> >
> > Policy editors, I think we can now choose between taking care of the
> > needs of reproducible images right with this policy change or do
> > de-scope this temporarily until we have settled on the new wording
> > (which also includes some definitions) and then handle this in a second
> > change. I think the second change also needs the base-passwd people in
> > the loop.
>
> The latter, please, assuming I'm not misunderstanding and the first
> change makes things worse on the reproducibility front.
I am not a native speaker, but in my understanding my proposed wording
does not change the way we're creating UIDs right now, just clarified
terminology and explicitly writes down how things are done now, and
Roland confirmed that the current image process doesn't care about
numerican UIDs at all since they already make sure that package
installation happens in a pre-defined order.
That being said, an upcoming adduser change will allow local
administrators (including image creators) to pre-define the numerical
UIDs before the actual account gets created. This, however, does not
influence the order of accounts listed in /etc/passwd, for this to be
reproducible, the passwd / shadow package should make sure that their
user database files are sorted.
Greetings
Marc
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