Re: [gentoo-dev] Determenistic system group and user id

2015-12-14 Thread Alec Warner
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 02:23:29PM -0800, Alec Warner wrote: > > 1) Why do you need deterministic uid / gid's? > > 2) If you do need deterministic uid / gid's, I would recommend storing > them > > all in the same

[gentoo-dev] Determenistic system group and user id

2015-12-13 Thread Alexey Shvetsov
Hi all! We trying to use ldap for users @work, many of our workstations running binary gentoo based distro called Calculate linux. However if we wanna have wide use of ldap there is a need for determenistic system group gids names and user uids. Many ebuilds in tree uses enewgroup and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Determenistic system group and user id

2015-12-13 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: > We trying to use ldap for users @work, many of our workstations running > binary gentoo based distro called Calculate linux. However if we wanna have > wide use of ldap there is a need for determenistic system group gids

Re: [gentoo-dev] Determenistic system group and user id

2015-12-13 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Alec Warner schrieb am 13.12.15 um 23:23 Uhr: [...] > I never understood why people would think the distro should handle unique > gid / uids. Plus you usually end up running: > > 1) More than one distro. not in most places > 2) More than one 'flavor' of a single distro where for whatever

Re: [gentoo-dev] Determenistic system group and user id

2015-12-13 Thread Alec Warner
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: > Hi all! > > We trying to use ldap for users @work, many of our workstations running > binary gentoo based distro called Calculate linux. However if we wanna have > wide use of ldap there is a need for determenistic

Re: [gentoo-dev] Determenistic system group and user id

2015-12-13 Thread Alexey Shvetsov
Hi Alec! Alec Warner писал 14-12-2015 01:23: On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: Hi all! We trying to use ldap for users @work, many of our workstations running binary gentoo based distro called Calculate linux. However if we wanna have wide use of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Determenistic system group and user id

2015-12-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 02:23:29PM -0800, Alec Warner wrote: > 1) Why do you need deterministic uid / gid's? > 2) If you do need deterministic uid / gid's, I would recommend storing them > all in the same place. They are ALL for system users and groups. TL;DR: if you're sharing data/config for