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.
Erik Troan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. We can do several things to work around this problem. 1. The LSB user/group specification can allow distributions to configure uid/gid ranges in a configuration file (or leave the selection up to the distribution if they don't use our implementation) 2. You can map uid/gid with NFS. Someone else mentioned this. 3. We can publish a suggested convention for uids and gids outside of the spec. If distributions transition to it it, great. If not, you have to do uid/gid mapping or sites have to solve it some other way. I actually examined every major distribution (at the time) several years ago (1995!) and starting writing a suggested convention for uid and gid numbers, but ever actually finished it. Debian has something similar nowadays in their policy. Dan
