On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 12:58:55PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > So you propose to introduce another registry of uid/gid <-> user/group > mappings > but not maintained by the base-passwd package but by the adduser package? I > guess this should use the range 100-999, right?
I wasn't suggesting a centrally-maintained registry; that would just move the limited-namespace problem somewhere else. My suggestion was more that adduser could read a file of ID preferences, ignored if the ID is already taken, which could be used when testing reproducibility of images. There should be no need for those preferences to be otherwise consistent across systems. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
