Hey,

pre-fixed user ids would be an anti-pattern and would only work if
debian would do it.

If you need files to be owned by a specific user you chown and possibly
chmod them in postinst. Using the name and not an id. You create that
user in case it is not already there.


https://github.com/ilbers/isar/blob/master/doc/user_manual.md#home-directory-contents-prefilling

and here the example postinst

https://github.com/ilbers/isar/blob/master/meta-isar/recipes-app/example-raw/files/postinst

This is also how debian does things. i.e. when a webserver needs the
user "www", all web-server packages would create that user if not
there, and chown/chmod based on the name.

I think every file in a debian package will always belong to root:root,
and deviations need to be chowned in postinst.

Henning

Am Wed, 1 Sep 2021 12:04:57 +0000
schrieb "Schultschik, Sven" <sven.schultschik@siemens.com>:

> Hi ISAR users,
> 
>  
> 
> I’m currently thinking about to freeze the users and group ids.
> 
>  
> 
> I have different ideas in mind, but I wanted to ask which would be
> the best way with ISAR to generate fixed user and group ids.
> 
>  
> 
> Or do you just pre create all needed user accounts before installing
> the packages within the build process?
> 
>  
> 
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