Mike Mueller wrote: > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > One of the reasons that my company standardized on Debian is that we > > _don't_ have to do stupid things like this all the time; we can trust that > > the Debian maintainer has put some thought into their part of the system, > > and that it's setup in a sane fashion by default. The way most things "just work" is definitely a Debian strength and one of the reasons I am trying to get my company to standardize on Debian too. > (I learned about UID and GID values differing between distros and > how that affects NFS file ownership yesterday.) Hmm... This topic has come up before. I would use NIS/YP to keep a shared password file. Or use some other method to keep the UIDs in sync across the various machines that use NFS. Using NFS implies needing _user_ (non-system) uid synchronization of some sort. This should not be a problem if you are trying to share user files. However, people have tried to share system files. I remember a discussion that people were trying to use a shared system mail spool directory. Don't try sharing system files. You are not trying to share system files at that level are you? Hope not. Let me caution you away from that. I would not be concerned except you mentioned uid/gids differing across different distributions. Yes they differ at the system level. But since none of those are shared it is not a problem. At the user level if you are using NFS then you should be using the same password entry (at least the same data) across all participating hosts. If you do that, then again there is no trouble. Bob
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