[arch-dev-public] policykit install problem

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/27 Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>> Guys, we have some big problems with groups.
>>
>> ( 9/31) installing policykit                        [---------------------] 100%
>> groupadd: GID 102 is not unique
>> useradd: unknown group policykit
>> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
>> chown: invalid user: `policykit'
>> chown: invalid user: `policykit:policykit'
>> chown: invalid user: `policykit'
>> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
>> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
>> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
>> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
>> chgrp: invalid group: `policykit'
>>
>> Taking a peek at /etc/groups I saw this:
>>
>> kvm:x:101:
>> tex:x:102:
>>
>> We really shouldn't be creating groups above 100, should we? Even more
>> of a problem is explicitly specifying 102 in the policykit install
>> script. These are reserved for user use. Your input is definitely
>> welcome on this.
>
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11589
>
> We have user UIDs starting from 1000, but GIDs only from 100.
> The most correct would be to have user-created GIDs start from 1000 too,
> but then users that already have created 1xx groups should recreate
> them and re-chgrp all files/dirs :-/

Mind filing a FR for that? I believe it would require changes in
shadow... but we need to be careful to warn all users to modify their
custom groups. It will be a headache, but I agree we should do it