Right, that's best practice. But, what if I need to include a user who is defined in NIS in lp or ttyS0 group? Would going into /etc/group in *every* machine be unavoidable?
João On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 1:42 PM Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 01:27:32PM -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: > > However, it will not solve the problem on how to centrally manage system > > resources access across distros. > > You don't manage OS-specific (or "distro"-specific if you prefer that term) > group IDs in a network database. Those are managed on a per-system basis > in the local /etc/group or analogous file(s). > > Your network database should contain only your organization's local user > and group identities. That's why the default NIS Makefile has MINUID > and MINGID settings. > >
