On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:13:53 -0600 "A. Wilcox" <awil...@adelielinux.org> wrote:
> Having a file that user.eclass would use to map new users/groups to > IDs would be extremely beneficial to me. I was thinking about diving > in to that some time later, after the GLEP 70 work I'm doing, but if > someone else wants to take it - please! That would greatly ease the > pain of not only NFS, but swapping data disks around between different / > . > > Consider, for example, one of my use cases for this: I have a > LibreSSL / that I use solely for testing ebuilds against it, and my > regular / with OpenSSL. I share /home and /srv between these two, but > the apache, nginx, and charybdis users have different UIDs between > them. Therefore I have to chown -R each time I test LibreSSL. > > I could use a different /home and /srv, or make two copies, but it's > much easier for me to test these apps having my entire normal > environment available to me. As mentioned in my other post, why are you not using idmapd? It's trivial to set up on top of NFSv4. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
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