On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Unless you're using something like NFS which uses UIDs as part of it's protocol I don't see why you'd care about what UIDs a user is mapped to. Seems to me like consistency for consistency's sake... (I suppose there are some braindead programs that embed a particular UID at compile time, but since this is open source it's pretty easy to work around such lameness).
Jeff
As much as possible I want to have static IDs on OLPC XS deployments
to have max consistency across XSs in the same region. A minor
package-installation-order difference should not lead to different
IDs.
Unless you're using something like NFS which uses UIDs as part of it's protocol I don't see why you'd care about what UIDs a user is mapped to. Seems to me like consistency for consistency's sake... (I suppose there are some braindead programs that embed a particular UID at compile time, but since this is open source it's pretty easy to work around such lameness).
Jeff
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