> >> Only indirectly related to zfs. I need to test diskusage/performance > >> on zfs shared via nfs. I have installed nevada b64a. Historically > >> uid/gid for user www has been 16/16 but when I try to add uid/gid www > >> via smc with the value 16 I'm not allowed to do so. > >> > >> I'm coming from a FreeBSD backgroup. Here I alter uid using vipw and > >> edit /etc/group afterwards. > > > > vipw was in /usr/ucb. I added the group using groupadd -g 16 www and > > useradd -u 16 -g www plus homedir-related information. Works now. > > Why not use the already assigned webservd/webserved 80/80 uid/gid pair ?
As mentioed there are historical reasons. User- and groupd-id 16 was default in an older release of RedHat (5.2??), a few years before I became sysadmin. Now we have some 80 TB of data (images) and changing uid/gid has to be planned carefully since I probably need to take the partition off-line before I do a chown -R. > Note that ALL uid and gid values below 100 are explicitly reserved for > use by the operating system itself and should not be used by end admins. > This is why smc failed to make the change. FreeBSD defaults to 80 for user www as well. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
