On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 21:32 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
ville.skytta(a)iki.fi (Ville Skyttä) writes:
>> > 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.
>
> Agreed on all counts. And in addition to the above, NFS4 should help in
> some specific cases too.
Sharing does not happen only over NFS.
...which is why I said "some specific cases".