* Alec Warner schrieb am 13.12.15 um 23:23 Uhr: [...] > I never understood why people would think the distro should handle unique > gid / uids. Plus you usually end up running: > > 1) More than one distro.
not in most places
> 2) More than one 'flavor' of a single distro where for whatever reason, uid
> and gid decisions differed (they renumbered, etc.)
>
> So if you want a consistent GID for a group, store the group name and gid
> in ldap and sync it; do not rely on your distro to do it. IMHO doing so is
> a design error.
I disagree here. Most (enterprise) environments use just one distro. And
its just very useful if you have sticky UIDs for daemon users for
example.
One example: You build an apache two-node cluster using DRBD (and
pacemaker...). If you happen to install some daemons in random order on
both nodes you might end up with apache having different UIDs which will
break things. This is a PITA.
ANd you do not want another central LDAP-Cluster just to have apache
UIDs in sync ;)
Red Hat for example has unique distro UIDs for many years now.
I would strongly vote for making GLEP27 reality. It makes life easier in
many places.
-Marc
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