Re: LSB specification for adding users and groups

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> 2. You can map uid/gid with NFS.  Someone else mentioned this.

knfsd doesn't support this
unfsd dropped support for this
non Linux systems dont support this

> 3. We can publish a suggested convention for uids and gids outside of the
>    spec.  If distributions transition to it it, great.  If not, you have
>    to do uid/gid mapping or sites have to solve it some other way.

That would be a good idea. Everyone still seems to use similar ids for most
stuff. As far as I can trace they all kind of inherited the SLS ones