On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 06:31:42PM +0200, Christian.Iseli@xxxxxxxx wrote: > mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx said: > > And that we should have a registry of standard fixed UIDs within that range, > > right? > That's the part I don't understand: why a global registry ? So that multiple systems have the same ids. Or so that if you do a reinstall, your files have the same owners. > Isn't the point of adding local UIDs to get a kind of macro thing, i.e. what > is standard is the name, which should be the same on all machines, but nobody > cares what the actual UID is ? The filesystem cares. Therefore, we have to. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
