Usercreation-policy

Dax Kelson Dax at GuruLabs.com
Wed Sep 24 04:48:58 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 20:45, Sean Middleditch wrote:

> The situation I personally see as the biggest problem is when we have
> shared directories using NFS (or another protocol that mandates
> UID<->username matching), but there are many apps on local machines not
> on the server.

Absolutely. However, in the future it will move from "biggest" to
"small" when NFSv4 (kernel 2.6) is used primarily.

In NFSv4, actual usernames/groups are passed around instead of
UIDs/GIDs.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs





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