Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package
> >No. Thats an argument for not forcing them in fact. If they are not dictated
> >then you can pick an arbitary mapping and use that. Which means whatever
> >legacy setup you have (providing it has no existing clashes) will work.
>
> If you cannot rely on hardcoded numbers, then it will not work to NFS mount /usr
> bewteen different distributions.
You can fix the numbers on any system to match what you want. Thats what not
defining numbers means. "I've got 8 legacy sun boxes so I'll use their
system uid layout"
> Note that neither NFS v1, nor V2 or v3 do contain any precautions to map user
> ids.
They don't disallow it either. See uuid in the unfsd package
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