On Feb 17, 2014, at 11:42 AM, Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2014-02-17 18:26, Dirk Müller wrote:
Is there a way to "register" usernames ?
Nope. This is why we have "wwwrun", and Fedora has "apache" (or was it "httpd"?) :p
I think he meant register with [open]SUSE, not a wider organization like FHS or FDO. Perhaps something like what FreeBSD does with ports: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/UIDs?view=markup I take it the answer is still no. Shame, but overall a minor thing. It is nice with the FreeBSD way giving you consistent UIDs on every package installation, so you can copy files from one box to another without having to check (and maybe fix) ownership afterwards. (I ran into this with the SUSE SMT tool, which was harder to fix since the package uses not just UNIX permissions but also ACLs. At least they documented this after I reported it.) Actually, it seems some packages (e.g. openssh, mysql) do have set UIDs in their preinstall scripts, but I'm not aware of a master list. If there is, perhaps it's internal, and only applicable to packages in the main repo. It would need to be a public, curated list to avoid UID conflicts, which would be worse than nondeterministic UIDs. -Andrew-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org