Re: LSB specification for adding users and groups
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
> For networked environments (think NFS mounts and NIS). If distribution A
> decides that the group mail is (say) GID 12, and distribution B decides
> that is GID 8, what happens when you try to NFS mount /var/spool/mail from
> a machine running A on a machine running B? All the files have the wrong
> group. A base set of UIDs and GIDs is defeinitely needed.
That could be a problem... We need to figure out how to migrate distributions
to that uid/gid scheme then, and I'm afraid that's going to be almost
impossible to get everyone to agree on.
Erik
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