Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (437 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 2015-04-16 13:14, Thomas Bechtold wrote:
> > > Context: the ceph project wants to reserve a UID/GID - being a
> > > distributed storage cluster, it's best if the UID/GIDs remain static
> > > across the whole cluster, and the most straightforward way to do this is
> > > to hardcode a UID/GID in a useradd/groupadd invocation in the rpm %pre
> > > script.
>
> I'm not sure if that is supported by openSUSE, but there is also
> systemd-sysusers (see man sysusers.d or
> http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html ) to create system
> users/groups.

systemd-sysusers is just an improved version of (%pre+useradd).
It still cannot guarantee equal UIDs across all (or even just a handful 
of) systems.
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