According to the policy, UIDs and GIDs in the range 1-100 are reserved
to be globally allocated by the base-passwd package. The libuuid1
postinstall script passes in UID_MIN=1 and GID_MIN=1. The useradd and
groupadd commands seems to skip UID's between 1 and 100 anyway, but
it's confusing, so we should pass in UID_MIN=100 and GID_MIN=100 for
clarity and in case useradd and groupadd ever changes their behaviour.
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #466929
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The adduser package is 'important', and while it is often installed,
we can't guarantee that it will always be there. A required package,
or a package which is dragged in by a required package, such as
libuuid1, shouldn't depend on an 'important' package since that would
implicitly make it be required, which shouldn't be done unless
absolutely necesary.
So we replace the call to adduser with the lower-level useradd and
groupadd programs. They are part of the passwd package, which is
required to be on all Debian systems.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Also store the clock sequence information in a state file in
/var/lib/misc/uuid-clock so that if the time goes backwards the clock
sequence counter can get bumped. This allows us to completely
correctly generate time-based (version 1) UUID's according to the
algorithm specified RFC 4122.
Addresses-Sourceforge-Bug: #1529672
Addresses-Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #233471
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Michael Spang