2008/8/7 Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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). A team of ~10 sysadmins handling tens of thousands of servers in adverse conditions - with the help of field technicians. Every bit of added consistency, even if seemingly pointless, wins. We might use NFS - unlikely, the _user_ accounts still have different uids - but there will be other cases where we might need stable uids, like shipping formatted disks around (with Real file systems, not vfat). Except for user data, I want to have everything in place to ensure that we *know* where every bit must be :-) cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
