GNU bug report logs - #45571
Support stable uids and gids for system accounts in a container

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Message #71 received at 45571 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 45571 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>
Subject: Re: bug#45571: Support stable uids and gids for all accounts
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 11:03:04 +0100

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> It's easily possible to recreate /etc/passwd from scratch if the uids are
> always specified in <user-account>s and thus /etc/passwd would not need to
> be persistent state anymore.  Right now everything from /etc/passwd except
> the uid and the comment is already specified in <user-account>.
>
> So Guix can indeed simply do away with the persistent state of
> /etc/passwd--that's why I suggested specifying the uids in the first place.

I don’t think it can: UID/GID allocation is stateful by nature because
you don’t want to reuse a recently-used ID right away.  See the
allocation strategy in (gnu build accounts).

Ludo’.

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