On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 12:54 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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. I save my /etc/passwd file for reinstall. For multiple machines where identical UID/GID is needed - you generally should not be relying on local /etc/passwd. If you have a laptop that needs to share UID/GID - then you manually set up the /etc/passwd and /etc/group for that laptop. A system administrator on a network where keeping UID/GID in sync is important should know how to do it w/o Fedora needing to specify a registry of unames and groups. Follow the FHS - below 100 reserved for vendor, 100-499 for system accounts not specified by vendor, 500 and above for user accounts. That works now, and no registry (which needs maintenance) is needed. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
