Re: changing servers' UID/GIDs
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathias Gygax" <mg@trash.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: changing servers' UID/GIDs
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 11:43:02PM +0300, Imre Oolberg wrote:
> > I try to keep two machines running Debian v 3.0 the same, essentially
> > mirrors of one another. But stupid me, i probably messed up the order
and
> > installed Heartbeat, Postfix and MySQL with different sequence on each
> > computer. Now i have same system users postfix, haclient and mysql with
> > different UID/GIDs. I think it would be good to have systems the same
> > down to its users' UID/GIDs.
>
> daemons which depend on hard-coded nummerical UIDs are the apt-get not
> worth of it.
>
> > I believe i could quite easily just find files belonging to specific
> > user/group and change them appropriately. But are there some hidden
rocks
> > i could run into doing so? What about Debian package management, for
> > example?
>
> locate the nummeric UID (e.g. 100).
>
> find -uid 100 <further options, like permissions and type of inode)
>
> > I'd be very grateful for any opinions on that matter. Sorry if this
> > question is already answered somewhare and you can kindly point me to
that
> > resource.
>
> just let the users be. glibc provide some functionality to lookup
> usernames to UIDs (cuserid and getlogin). hardcoded UIDs are not
> portable (beside root account) and should be avoided everytime you
> design a daemon.
>
>
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