On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:39 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 07.12.2011 07:50, schrieb Craig White: > > out of curiosity, what is the requirement for having uidNumbers starting > > at 500 instead of 1000? > > because people usually migrate their whole systems from one hardware > to the next and if you have a lot of users and existing files > with permissions it is unuseable to have "freddy" 3 times with > uid 500 and 1 time with uid 1000 > > migrate whole system = dd the disk to the next hardware > migrate whole system = install F9 and stay currently with F15 > > did you ever work in an environment with a lot of servers and > users and used rsync / nfs? ---- I manage a lot of networks and always use LDAP for user base and typically (but not always) use NFS and for that matter, NFS automounts.
Please don't respond to my postings. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
