Hi, On 2021/12/01 08:45, Alec Warner wrote:
> 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? In this case none. So no need for centralized database otherwise. > Do the userids for the human users also not have to match between > hosts in the cluster? In certain environments we do need that, which is where nss_ldap and friends come in. In those environments the system ids doesn't matter though, because only /home is shared :). Kind Regards, Jaco
