[Freeipa-devel] dna_plugin

[Karl MacMillan]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 13:28 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:37 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> > I finally got around to testing the uid/gid auto-generation thinger.
> > 
> > I commented out the hardcoded uidnumber['501'] and adding a user 
> > automatically generates a uid. So that's good.
> > 
> > But each user also needs a gidNumber. What should that value be? I don't 
> > think we've ever come to a resolution on that.
> 
> it depends on whether we want to keep doing the insane thing the OS does
> (ie a group for each user by default) in which case we should also
> create that group (bleah) an make gid == uid, or use a more saner
> default, create a "Users" group and make that be their default primary
> group on creation.
> 

I thought that we decided to do the second because adding that many
groups causes huge numbers of problems.

Karl