On Wednesday 15 November 2006 01:24, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 9 November 2006 at 8:46:00 -0600, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: [sharing ports tree] > > Also, what about user accounts between machines? > > With NFS you typically have the same user ID on all related machines. > > > I got to thinking that because some of the servers have the same > > user accounts, would it be possible to share a password file or home > > directories? > > Yes, again with some caveats. The biggest ones are configuration > files in the home directory that contain references to the system > you're working on. My biggest problem is the .emacs file: it refers > to packages that I have installed on some systems only.
The issue which bit me when doing this was that many ports add a user using pw(8) (as indeed the Porter's handbook advises them to), and this uses the ``next available'' uid. In my case, on one server I added net/isc-dhcp3-server from ports before setting up LDAP: the result was a uid clash between the dhcpd user created by the port, and a human user in LDAP. Even if LDAP had been set up, I would still have had to note, the next time I needed to add a human user, that the ``next available'' uid was being used by a port on one particular server. I'm now in the process of creating two ranges of user numbers: one available to pw(1) and ports (through pw.conf(5) settings) and a separate range for human users - see my earlier post to this list (12 Oct 2006) for more. Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
