UID_MIN & GID_MIN changed

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Thu May 26 12:52:34 UTC 2011


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 ...

Simo.

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