On Sun, 30 May 2010 15:02:41 +0100, Stephen Gran <sg...@debian.org> wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: >> I am not a very good friend of just counting. I would try to somehow >> hash the user name into the UID since this will - at least on systems >> with only a handful of users - enhance the chance that the same user >> name will get the same UID on different systems. > >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.
If you think Directory Services, I doubt that my customers would allow me to put all systems that I operate in their environment (seldomly more than a handful per customer) on a single directory service. But I really like the idea of having all "Debian-exim" accounts with the same UID on all systems as this incredibly eases moving things (such as configuration templates) from one box to the other. This might be old-fashioned and paranoid, but it really eases life. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1oj52s-0001op...@swivel.zugschlus.de
