UID_MIN & GID_MIN changed

[Casey Dahlin]

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