Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I haven't tried it but I would assume that if the user exists then the > > package uses that. So cresting a template /etc/passwd before > > installing packages would fix this. > > That works, indeed. Maybe Someone™ should develop a small "UGID server" > which integrates into Debian's `adduser/addgroup` system (i.e. those > tools would first ask the UGID server if that user has already been > allocated an ID and if not register a new ID for it), so you can run > such a server locally and tell Debian to use it so that all your > machines share the same UID/GID namespace.
If someone is going to do that, they will re-invent LDAP. Quite possibly in a more sane fashion -- LDAP is not sane, being based on X.400 and ASN.1 -- but losing the compatibility of thousands of LDAP applications. -dsr-
