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GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily replacing with SDDM

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Brendan Tildesley <btild <at> mailbox.org>, 36508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 12:16:43 -0400

Hi Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> skribis:
>
>>> Maintain historical mappings from user/group names to UIDs/GIDs, perhaps
>>> in some file in /etc, where entries are added but *never* automatically
>>> removed.  When allocating UIDs/GIDs, we would avoid any UIDs/GIDs in the
>>> range of those mappings.
>
> If we’re just worried about ID allocation, we could keep state in, say,
> /etc/previous-uids, and feed that as input to the (gnu build accounts)
> allocation code.

Sounds good to me, or at least better than the other available options.

     Thanks,
       Mark

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