On 11/22/05, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Randy McMurchy wrote:
> > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2005-April/009761.html
>
> I agree with that idea also for other reasons: it makes things more
> uniform across everybody's LFS system if people don't care about coming
> up with their own ID schemes.
>

Would someone really be affected if the UID of postfix on their server
is 21 but on the remote server that they login to it is 22? Except
during the creation, no one ever uses the UIDs and GIDs, everyone uses
the user/group name.

The only issue is if the same directory is mounted on different
systems, which would require lot more things be common between the two
systems other than the system UIDs/GIDs.

Also note that this recommendation is for including it in the book as
a safe way to create users/groups. For individual installations, folks
can still use any scheme that they want based on their needs.

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