new user creation module in firstboot
Ben Konrath
bkonrath at redhat.com
Fri Oct 5 03:37:10 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 17:37 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote:
> tor 2007-10-04 klockan 08:36 -0400 skrev Matthew Miller:
> >
> > Often, yes. But I also like to have all user ids the same at home so
> > usernames on removable media just match up. I don't have complicated enough
> > home network (or enough users!) to justify LDAP or even NIS, and anyway I
> > need disconnected operation. So matching up user ids is nice.
>
> Yeah, I do that too.
>
> Though perhaps it's time to start thinking about how to solve this
> automatically. I personally feel that user ids should be local and that
> anything that's not local to a host (removable media, network file
> systems etc.) should use something else which then gets mapped to a
> local uid when necessary. I'm not sure what that something would be,
> though. Usernames, username at domain, mugshot accounts, user at uuid or
> whatever.
>
> For example, a USB drive with an ext3 file system could contain some
> database that maps uids for that file system to usernames. Then when you
> plug that into a machine, the uids are automatically remapped according
> to this database to match what the host actually uses.
I agree, solving the real problem is the better way to go. But
unfortunately that's out of scope for user creation stuff I'm working
on.
Matt: How do you get around not being able to specify the uid in the
current firstboot user creation module? - Just curious.
Cheers, Ben
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