Felipe Sateler <fsate...@gmail.com> writes: > I mean, is there a reason for why I would want a non-UPG system? From > what I've read in this thread, a common users group presents no > advantage over UPG. Debian as an OS provider may be "forced" to support > non-UPG configurations for reasons like you state, but I'm more interest > in why would an enterprise want to take such a decision.
In our case, because we've historically only ever used one GID in our enterprise LDAP (previously NIS) user database, so it's very difficult to safely introduce UPG since individual systems have used GIDs for various other reasons. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87eihbe4hf....@windlord.stanford.edu
