On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 08:52:34AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 07:39 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote:
> ons 2011-05-25 klockan 12:37 -0500 skrev Dennis Gilmore:
>
> > another issue that i thought of was existing ldap/nis systems that allocate
> > regular users in the 500-1000 range when installing or upgrading if they use
> > policies that probit system accounts from logging in will have users unable to
> > login.
>
> As someone who admins such an LDAP setup I think the sooner the change
> is made the better. (If it had been changed long ago then it wouldn't
> have been a problem now.)
>
> Personally I think UIDs and their relation to user accounts should be
> treated as host-local. I also want a pony.
It would be nice, but then there is NFS ...
NFSv4 has UID mapping, and we were all supposed to start using it
yesterday. My pony will have sparkles and rainbows.
--CJD