groups: section should support group id

[ubuntu-server-builder]

This bug was originally filed in Launchpad as LP: #1075769

Launchpad details

affected_projects = []
assignee = harlowja
assignee_name = Joshua Harlow
date_closed = None
date_created = 2012-11-06T22:54:30.963176+00:00
date_fix_committed = None
date_fix_released = None
id = 1075769
importance = medium
is_complete = False
lp_url = https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1075769
milestone = None
owner = alex-guan
owner_name = Alex Guan
private = False
status = triaged
submitter = alex-guan
submitter_name = Alex Guan
tags = []
duplicates = []

Launchpad user Alex Guan(alex-guan) wrote on 2012-11-06T22:54:30.963176+00:00

We need to be able to specify the group id when adding a group via groups: direction in cloud-config section

[mmoser-aires]

Any idea on this being implemented? uid/gid is a pretty important setting especially in network environments where those have to match (NFS filesystems, etc).

[holmanb]

Any idea on this being implemented? uid/gid is a pretty important setting especially in network environments where those have to match (NFS filesystems, etc).

It's not on the roadmap at the moment. Feel free to submit a PR which implements this.