On Sep 7, 2005, Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "central uid database" implicates something like LDAP or NIS. Nah... It might as well be something based on GNU Ad HoC, cfengine or something even simpler based on rdist. > Yes, I remember some 'find -uid ... | xargs chown'. Such actions are > tending to evolve to a huge mess, especially when a '-h' flag was > forgotten or already assigned uids were used... Yuck -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
