On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 10:16 PM Jaco Kroon <j...@uls.co.za> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 2021/12/01 03:32, William Hubbs wrote: > > This is the part of this that I don't understand. If we aren't enforcing > > an ID, why do we care which ID to try first? It seems to be an > > unnecessary step since users can pick the IDs they want by putting > > settings in make.conf. > > Because when running clusters of hosts it's useful to have the UIDs for > "system" users match. Yes, I know this won't match in a multi-distro > setup, but at least for those of us with clusters consisting only of > Gentoo hosts it will *usually* match. Changing these are possible, but > a nuisance, so having it "just work" for the usual case is great IMHO.
So questions from my side are: Does your cluster not have human users? Do the userids for the human users also not have to match between hosts in the cluster? -A > > If I'm not mistaken there is a setting to REQUIRE the ID, and that could > even be set from make.conf, or env/ so for those packages that we care > about that (eg, mailman running on top of glusterfs) we use that. > > Kind Regards, > Jaco > >
