On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 17:37 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote: > tor 2007-10-04 klockan 08:36 -0400 skrev Matthew Miller: > > > > Often, yes. But I also like to have all user ids the same at home so > > usernames on removable media just match up. I don't have complicated enough > > home network (or enough users!) to justify LDAP or even NIS, and anyway I > > need disconnected operation. So matching up user ids is nice. > > Yeah, I do that too. > > Though perhaps it's time to start thinking about how to solve this > automatically. I personally feel that user ids should be local and that > anything that's not local to a host (removable media, network file > systems etc.) should use something else which then gets mapped to a > local uid when necessary. I'm not sure what that something would be, > though. Usernames, username@domain, mugshot accounts, user@uuid or > whatever. > > For example, a USB drive with an ext3 file system could contain some > database that maps uids for that file system to usernames. Then when you > plug that into a machine, the uids are automatically remapped according > to this database to match what the host actually uses. I agree, solving the real problem is the better way to go. But unfortunately that's out of scope for user creation stuff I'm working on. Matt: How do you get around not being able to specify the uid in the current firstboot user creation module? - Just curious. Cheers, Ben -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
