[csw-maintainers] Creation of users and groups added to cswclassutils

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 09.02.2009 um 23:45 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:36:44PM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 09.02.2009 um 23:25 schrieb Peter Bonivart:
>>> Sadly, you may be right, I remember reading that from when I did the
>>> SMF scripts. I will test it tomorrow so we know for sure how it  
>>> works.
>>
>> It would be nice if we could agree on an uid-range for technical CSW
>> users. Usually a useradd grabs the next free uid which happens to
>> be from the user-range most of the time. Maybe 9000-9999?
>
> errr.. by that, do you mean,
> "agree on a range that CSW packages use, when creating new user ids"?

Yes.

> that sounds like something that should go in as a "cswusrgrp" related
> option into csw.conf
>
> eg:
>
> usrgrp_startuid=456
> usrgrp_startgid=100

Sounds good.

> similarly, for consistancy, I think that other "usrgrp" class options,
> might be best prefixed with "usrgrp"

BTW, 'usr' is horrible, usr != User, usr = Unix System Resources



Best regards

   -- Dago