Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups

reassign 329701 adduser thanks Maintainers of adduser, please review the log of bug #329701 and comment. Thank you. Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It might be helpful to have everything ready to be changed in one > fell swoop in order to avoid skew between policy and reality and to >

Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups

Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And it's not like this would be changed on a running system, > > right? > > That is not the case. /var/yp/Makefile is a conffile and so will be > updated if it hasn't been modified. Oh, I see. Sorry. (Hmm, the installation scripts would have to check

Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups

Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I submit that this is not a problem in practice since I'd bet no one using NIS has created more than 400 local groups that must not be exported. And it's not like this would be changed on a running system, right? It would just be the default value in /var/yp

Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups

package debian-policy reassign 329701 nis thanks (No reply from anybody on -policy for a few months now, so I follow up myself.) Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This looks like a question for policy rather than the NIS package > since coordination with things like adduser seems at least

Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups

Package: nis Version: 3.13-2 Severity: wishlist (I tried to raise this question for general discussion some time ago but no one replied. See . Therefore I now submit a more specific proposal as a wishlist bug in the hope of some feedbac

Local (non-NIS) users and groups

If I want to have machine-local users and groups, what uids and gids would I want to give them? The nis package by default exports all uids from 100 and up, and the uids below that are reserved. It could be decided to only export normal user ids (1000-2) and use system users for local stuff,