On 5/8/25 8:50 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi , I want to match uid/gid across multiple systems but before I > potentially destroy multiple systems trying to fix the mess I want to > see if there is an easier/better way: > > The cause of the problem is the "ACCT_USER_ID=-1" in the acct-user and > matching acct-group ebuilds (which I think means use next available uid/ > gid - which in my case isn't close to consistent.)
-1 is forbidden by policy in ::gentoo, I suppose you might care to guess why. Per the documentation: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/acct-user.eclass/#lbAF You may set ACCT_USER_${UPPERCASE_PACKAGE_NAME}_ID=myuid to override it if you wish. The eclass is designed to provide this specific extension point so that users can choose arbitrarily-random uids for packages which already have a globally reserved uid. (Don't ask me why.) -- Eli Schwartz
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