adding users and groups

Some ports automatically add users and groups with random high g/uids, this is not good in a NIS environment as it may well cause conflicts between g/uids across machines. One one machine you are uid 1000... but you install a package on another which grabs local uid 1000 on that machine so you cannot log in on that machine.

Other ports let the administrator do the user management manually. This it seems to me is the only sane option at the moment.

Would it be possible to start allocating fixed uids say between 500 and 999 inclusive to specific ports? Then the port can do it's own user management with a fixed g/uid and no fear of conflict. At the same time a registry @openbsd.org would prevent username conflicts, between ports or with the src tree.

--Andrew

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