Re: same UIDs across multiple systems

2010-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 May 2010 19:57:13 +0200, "C. Gatzemeier" wrote: >I found useradd (not adduser) is part of passwd (not base-passwd), >would that be that central tool to take care of debian requirements? useradd is a portable tool. We should not make any semantic changes to that. Adduser is the debian t

Re: same UIDs across multiple systems

2010-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 31 May 2010 07:58:45 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >On dim., 2010-05-30 at 20:46 +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: >> Not a 100% sync, since any conflicts will need to be resolved, but quite >> good for systems with sparse users. Also for reinstalling/replacing >> systems, because it makes th

Re: same UIDs across multiple systems

2010-05-30 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim., 2010-05-30 at 20:46 +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > Not a 100% sync, since any conflicts will need to be resolved, but quite > good for systems with sparse users. Also for reinstalling/replacing > systems, because it makes the IDs independent from the order in which > they were created. I'

Re: same UIDs across multiple systems

2010-05-30 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Sun, 30 May 2010 20:13:31 +0200 schrieb Luk Claes: > > I guess you should have a deeper look into the possibilities of nss so > you don't need to sync /etc/passwd and similar files across systems, Ah thanks, you were thinking NIS networked shared database. I was thinking, say if I would give

Re: same UIDs across multiple systems

2010-05-30 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/30/2010 07:57 PM, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > Am Sun, 30 May 2010 15:02:41 +0100 > schrieb Stephen Gran : > >> There are already well understood mechanisms for ensuring that uids >> are the same across multiple systems. I don't think adduser is the >> place for that. I guess you should have a d

same UIDs across multiple systems

2010-05-30 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Sun, 30 May 2010 15:02:41 +0100 schrieb Stephen Gran : > There are already well understood mechanisms for ensuring that uids > are the same across multiple systems. I don't think adduser is the > place for that. Do you have a debian pointer maybe? I am asking because the following suggests a