On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 06:31:42PM +0200, Christian.Iseli@xxxxxxxx wrote: > That's the part I don't understand: why a global registry ? > > 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 ? I have to agree. I can't think of a single reason why it would matter (for example) what UID the openvpn user is on any system. It's just an unprivileged user that openvpn can be configured to run as (after starting as root). I could use "nobody", but, well, that seems to be bad form these days. > 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. In that case, there's NIS/NIS+/LDAP/whatever, and it is up to the sysadmin to do any extra work necessary to integrate the package into their environment. In the case of my openvpn package, if "useradd -r" does the right thing, then the problem is solved. If not, the sysadmin can just add an openvpn user before installing the package. Steve -- Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxx http://www.kspei.com/ Phone: (618)398-3000 Mobile: (618)567-7320 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
