GNU bug report logs - #37423
Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM causes a really bad loop

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Message #20 received at 37423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: 37423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37423: Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then
 back to GDM causes a really bad loop
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:32 +0200

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Hi Ludo'!

Ludovic Courtès 写道：
> However, looking at the allocation routines in (gnu build 
> accounts), I
> think that this would forcefully set ‘gdm’ to 900/900 on 
> existing
> installations, even if 900 is already used by another account:

I'm already using GID 900 (and others) for my own nefarious ends. 
How would this even deal with that?  Am I doomed to forever jump 
around, dodging new hard-coded GIDs?

> (Or we could use much lower UID/GID numbers, which are less 
> likely to be
> taken…)

‘Likely’, eek ;-)

So now you're coming after my ‘25’ vmail user, eh.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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