Christian.Iseli@xxxxxxxx wrote : > That's the part I don't understand: why a global registry ? > [...] > > I agree it can get a bit hairy when several machines share things by NFS, but > having a central global UID registry also seems hairy. That's the point : Fixed uid/gid is often a good thing, I have many setups where a bunch of redundant servers access the same nfs share, and I'm in trouble when I install packages on those servers which create a user with a non fixed uid, and one gets say 201 and the other 202... I'm really grateful to know I can expect apache to be uid 48 everywhere, for instance. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 Load : 0.40 1.01 2.31 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
