uid and gid for linux dist

[roboll]

in my projects i override postinst to assign a predetermined uid and gid to the created groups for dpkg distributions.

wondering if there's a general need to be able to assign uid and gid by the larger user base? - if so, i'd be happy to submit a pr.

[muuki88]

Can you share your postinst code and build.sbt?
You are the first one asking for this, so maybe a small example
in the docs would be enough. On the otherside, a small autoplugin
is really easy.

[roboll]

right now it has no impact on my sbt build definition - i override src/debian/DEBIAN/postinst methods addGroup() and addUser() to take an additional argument, gid and uid respectively. i hardcode the uid and gid in the files.

in the groupadd and useradd calls, i add the appropriate flag if the additional arg is present.

if [ -z "$uid" ]; then
    uid_flag="--uid $uid"
fi
useradd $uid_flag ...

i'd rather see this included the same way group and user are - a key in the build definition.

daemonUser in Linux := "username"

daemonUid in Linux := "20000"

or maybe daemonUserId...

if there's no objection to including this, i'll throw something together this week - i'd much prefer to not hard code uid and gid in the postinst file.

[muuki88]

Sounds like a good plan. Looking forward to your pull request. Ping if you need any help.

[benmccann]

Looks like this can be closed as fixed now

[muuki88]

Ah, thanks :)