On 07/20/2011 01:19 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 12:29 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: >> On 07/20/2011 12:28 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Ric Wheeler<rwhee...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>> I normally build systems with (at least!) a separate /boot, / and /home. >>>> This lets me do a full install, blow away old fedora system partitions and >>>> not lose any user data. >>>> >>>> Since that puts down a pristine F16 image, does that mean we need to chown >>>> all of the user files that survive in a separate partition? >>> Either chown the files, or create a kickstart file that puts >>> /etc/login.defs in place in a %pre script. chown is probably much >>> simpler unless you have many systems to manage. >>> Mirek >> Makes sense... >> >> We should also note that this might be a common need for users who have SAN >> attached storage (and that could be large, multi-user systems). > If they don't already have a directory or at the very least a way to > rsync /etc/passwd around they do not have a production grade > installation. > > If they already have shared user information this change shouldn't make > much of a difference to them unless they want to change existing user > Ids. > > Simo. >
With SAN attached storage (or just the clean install example I gave earlier in the thread), the install will have existing user ID's but their /etc/password (and so on) will get nuked during the install which could/will re-use existing user ID's. rsync won't help since their data is all local already. You will need to "chown" the user files to the higher range PID's. Ric -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
