Re: Static system level uid/gid's reservations in Fedora/RHEL - how to handle situation?

2009-06-08 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Friday 05 June 2009, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > I gave up and renumbered on my newest boxes. It sure is a pain today > when I'm trying to use NFS between an old box and a new one. > > I think that Sun supports UID mapping on NFS but Linux does not. It's supported with NFSv4. That might not

Re: Static system level uid/gid's reservations in Fedora/RHEL - how to handle situation?

2009-06-05 Thread Ondřej Vašík
Bill McGonigle wrote: > On 04/28/2009 03:04 AM, Ondřej Vašík wrote: > > What's the best way to handle that situation? One possibility is to > > increase the threshold of system level id's (to 200? 300?) > > I guess I've been blissfully ignorant and always assumed that id's under > 500 were reserv

Re: Static system level uid/gid's reservations in Fedora/RHEL - how to handle situation?

2009-06-05 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Bill McGonigle writes: > I guess I've been blissfully ignorant and always assumed that id's > under 500 were reserved for system use since Redhat systems have > always created the first user uid as 500. I think it was 100 with early RHL. I'm sure I had to renumerate UIDs, most probably between R

Re: Static system level uid/gid's reservations in Fedora/RHEL - how to handle situation?

2009-06-04 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 04/28/2009 03:04 AM, Ondřej Vašík wrote: What's the best way to handle that situation? One possibility is to increase the threshold of system level id's (to 200? 300?) I guess I've been blissfully ignorant and always assumed that id's under 500 were reserved for system use since Redhat syst

Re: Static system level uid/gid's reservations in Fedora/RHEL - how to handle situation?

2009-06-04 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:30:48 -0400 | From: Bill Nottingham | Ondřej Vašík (ova...@redhat.com) said: | > What's the best way to handle that situation? One possibility is to | > increase the threshold of system level id's (to 200? 300?), another is | > to check current reservation and clean l