Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?
On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 11:58:31AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 08:15:37PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > This is my patch.
>
> I like your patch. :) I just have one comment:
>
> > +``Dynamic local`` allocated ids should by default be arranged in some
> > +sensible order, but the behavior should be configurable.
>
> unpredictable or non-deterministic allocation of such ids is a cause of non-
> reproducibiliy for Debian images and installations, so us reproducible folks
> would like to see "sensible" to be expanded to take reproducible builds into
> account.
So we should go (in Policy) more towards "dynamic global UIDs and GIDs
which may post additional load towards the base-passwd maintainers?
Or would it be enough for reproducible images if adduser would finally
implement #243929, making it possible to pre-determine UIDs before an
image is built?
Greetings
Marc
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