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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Title:</th><td class="field-body">Portage Management of UIDs/GIDs</td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org></td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Created:</th><td class="field-body">29 May 2004</td> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#status" id="id2" name="id2">Status</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#abstract" id="id3" name="id3">Abstract</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#motivation" id="id4" name="id4">Motivation</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#specification" id="id5" name="id5">Specification</a><ul> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#portage-structure" id="id6" name="id6">Portage Structure</a><ul> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#defining-accounts" id="id7" name="id7">Defining Accounts</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#local-overrides" id="id8" name="id8">Local Overrides</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#developer-interface" id="id9" name="id9">Developer Interface</a><ul> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#eusers-egroups" id="id10" name="id10">EUSERS + EGROUPS</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#id1" id="id11" name="id11">Defining Accounts</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#user-interface" id="id12" name="id12">User Interface</a><ul> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#rationale" id="id15" name="id15">Rationale</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#references" id="id17" name="id17">References</a></li> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2" name="status">Status</a></h1> |
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<p>This GLEP was approved as-is on 14-Jun-2004.</p> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3" name="abstract">Abstract</a></h1> |
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<p>The current handling of users and groups in the portage system lacks |
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policy and a decent API. We need an API that is both simple for |
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developers and end users.</p> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4" name="motivation">Motivation</a></h1> |
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<p>Currently the policy is left up to respective ebuild maintainers to |
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choose the username, id, shell settings, etc... and to have them added |
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in the right place at the right time in the right way. When the |
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addition of users was found to often times have broken logic, the |
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enewuser and enewgroup functions were designed to remove all the |
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details. However, these functions still suffer from some fundamental |
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problems. First, there is no local customization. Second, maintainers |
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still use the functions improperly (binary packages have suffered the |
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most thus far). Third, the functions are not portable across non-linux |
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systems and not friendly to cross compiling or other exotic setups. |
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There are other reasons, but these listed few are enough to warrant |
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change.</p> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5" name="specification">Specification</a></h1> |
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6" name="portage-structure">Portage Structure</a></h2> |
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<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7" name="defining-accounts">Defining Accounts</a></h3> |
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<p>A new directory will need to be added to the rsync tree to store the |
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files that define the default values for new accounts.</p> |
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<p>The files are named with the respective user/group name since they need |
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to be unique in their respective domains. For example, the file |
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not on others (*BSD) can be tagged as such. Each groupname.xml will |
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follow similar guidelines. The accounts.xml will be used to describe |
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global account defaults such as the default range of 'valid system' ids. |
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user defaults to '123', we obviously cannot just duplicate it. So we |
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would select the next available UID on the system based upon the range |
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defined here.</p> |
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the heirarchy found in the portage tree. When portage attempts to add a |
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<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11" name="id1">Defining Accounts</a></h3> |
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<p>When this script is run, all the users/groups that have been added by |
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portage to the system will be shown along with the packages that have |
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added said users/groups. Here they can delete accounts that are no longer |
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script that will try to locate all files on the system that may still be |
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<p>This is for the people who never want portage creating accounts for them. |
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in FEATURES, portage will abort with a message instructing the user to |
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add the accounts that are listed in EUSERS and EGROUPS. This is |
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obviously a required step before the package will be emerged.</p> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15" name="rationale">Rationale</a></h1> |
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<p>Developers no longer have to worry about how to properly add users/groups |
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systems (LDAP vs local shadow vs cross compile vs etc...). Users can |
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easily override the defaults Gentoo has before dictated. The default |
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passwd and group database can once again be trimmed down to the barest of |
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accounts.</p> |
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<p>Handled in similar fashion as other portage rollouts. When using the new |
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account system, add a DEPEND for the required version of portage to the |
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