Re: new user creation module in firstboot

[Ben Konrath <bkonrath redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 17:37 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote:
> tor 2007-10-04 klockan 08:36 -0400 skrev Matthew Miller:
> > 
> > Often, yes. But I also like to have all user ids the same at home so
> > usernames on removable media just match up. I don't have complicated enough 
> > home network (or enough users!) to justify LDAP or even NIS, and anyway I   
> > need disconnected operation. So matching up user ids is nice. 
> 
> Yeah, I do that too.
> 
> Though perhaps it's time to start thinking about how to solve this
> automatically. I personally feel that user ids should be local and that
> anything that's not local to a host (removable media, network file
> systems etc.) should use something else which then gets mapped to a
> local uid when necessary. I'm not sure what that something would be,
> though. Usernames, username domain, mugshot accounts, user uuid or
> whatever.
> 
> For example, a USB drive with an ext3 file system could contain some
> database that maps uids for that file system to usernames. Then when you
> plug that into a machine, the uids are automatically remapped according
> to this database to match what the host actually uses.

I agree, solving the real problem is the better way to go. But
unfortunately that's out of scope for user creation stuff I'm working
on.

Matt: How do you get around not being able to specify the uid in the
current firstboot user creation module? - Just curious.

Cheers, Ben