On Sep 7, 2005, Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz(a)informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> 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
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