On 2005-06-20 15:58:00 +0200, GOMBAS Gabor wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:54:38PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This means that Debian (in particular) won't necessarily integrate > > nicely in a foreign network. > > That's true for Solaris, AIX, Mac OS X etc. as well.
That's why I said "in particular". I don't know how these systems set up gids, but a system vendor who would really want to avoid these problems (knowing the local NIS policy) would be able to do that. > > There are at least 2 valid reasons that > > it may be difficult to follow this rule: > > > > * The sysadmins cannot support every OS and cannot know every > > possible conflict. > > Yes they should. It's their job. NIS is about _central_ management, > which includes the list of supported configurations. If your > configuration is not on that list, then you're on your own, and > cannot expect things to 'just work'. Here the users choose the OS they want, so no, the sysadmins cannot support every OS. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
