On: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:54:00 -0700 (PDT) George Bonser writes:
>
> I am trying to put some debian boxes in at work and one problem I
> keep running into when setting them up is that Debian's selection of
> groups and users is different than the NIS maps being passwd
> around. This results in ownership of files and directoried changing
> when NIS is started.
> [differences in the gids explained]
> The ones that particularly bite are staff/uucp, mail/lp
>
> Are there any plans to make things a little more standard so that
> Linux can more easilly exist in an NIS/Automount environment?
Is there any standard for such a thing? Even the FSSTND (1.2) didn't
even mention group ids.
Torsten
BTW: Standarisation of such topics among all unix versions would be
great, but is almost impossible (compare BSD based systems with SysV
systems).
