[Freeipa-devel] Autogen uid/gid

Karl MacMillan kmacmill at redhat.com
Thu Oct 25 18:29:12 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:28 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:19 -0400, Karl MacMillan wrote:
> > As I was doing some multi-machine testing w/ nfs I realized that forcing
> > uid/gid generation is not going to work in all circumstances (I needed
> > to force my uid/gid to be the same as an existing user on an exported
> > filesystem).
> > 
> > How can we handle this?
> 
> We can't easily.
> Welcome to migration madness, and the unsuitability of unix platform to
> work in heavily networked environments (just kidding but not too
> much :-)
> 

I think we must solve this - even if forcing the uid/gid is problematic
and must be done carefully.

Karl




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