[Fedora-packaging] Static UIDs and GIDs

[Tom Lane]

Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> writes:
> On 04/11/2013 03:30 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> Based on experience storing system related uid's and gid's in ldap
>> is a bad idea ( what happens if you cant reach your ldap )

> That was true once upon a time, but I'd like to mention that in the
> era of SSSD for user-ID lookups, there are a great many deployments
> out there using LDAP for such IDs quite successfully.

Is this new technology since, um, January?  Because I was told as
recently as January that you can't rely on systemd knowing about
UIDs that are defined in LDAP:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894750#c4

The context there was that any service with tmpfiles.d entries had
better have uid/gid that are known at poweron.  Reliably, not just
most of the time.  I'm uninterested in somebody telling me they'll
cache the values, because *I* get the bug report when it doesn't work.

			regards, tom lane