On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > For networked environments (think NFS mounts and NIS). If distribution A > decides that the group mail is (say) GID 12, and distribution B decides > that is GID 8, what happens when you try to NFS mount /var/spool/mail from > a machine running A on a machine running B? All the files have the wrong > group. A base set of UIDs and GIDs is defeinitely needed.
That could be a problem... We need to figure out how to migrate distributions to that uid/gid scheme then, and I'm afraid that's going to be almost impossible to get everyone to agree on. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "For the next two hours, VH1 will be filled with foul-mouthed, | | crossdressing Australians. Viewer discretion is advised." | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://www.redhat.com/~johnsonm/lad |
