hashing username => UID

2010-05-31 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Mon, 31 May 2010 15:28:20 +0200 schrieb Marc Haber: > I really like the idea of having all "Debian-exim" accounts with the > same UID on all systems as this incredibly eases moving things As Yves suggested, maybe start testing a username => [1000..2] hash algorithm and conflict resolution

hashing username => UID

2010-05-30 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Sat, 29 May 2010 16:51:10 +0200 schrieb Marc Haber : > 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. That could be quite nice, yes. -- To UNSUBSC