"Lewis, Dave" <[email protected]> writes: > We're planning to have more Ubuntu/Debian computers here. If we want to > avoid conflicts between UIDs of normal users and system daemons, what's > the best way to go about it?
> I can change the Unix UID for a user and then chown all of that user's > files. However, the AFS docs say that it is important for the AFS UIDs > to match the Unix UIDs, and I don't see how to change an AFS UID. Unfortunately, there's no good way to change the AFS UID without doing the same thing, which is of course rather tedious in AFS. The good news is that AFS for the most part doesn't care a great deal about file ownership, so you can (in most cases) skip the chown, although there are a few exceptions. But you'd need to change all the ACLs if you change the AFS PTS ID number. You can use different local UIDs and AFS PTS IDs and everything will continue to work properly. AFS doesn't actually care what your local UID is; it will use whatever your PTS ID is for such things as file ownership. However, some local software (particularly on Mac OS X) can get confused. My recommendation would be to change the user's UIDs but leave the AFS PTS IDs for existing accounts alone and see if you can live with the mismatch. I've personally been using AFS for many years with a different local UID than my AFS PTS ID and never notice any more. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
