static uids/gids and (not) using fedora-usermgmt (was: uids for daemons on a spin)

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> As much as possible I want to have static IDs on OLPC XS deployments
> to have max consistency across XSs in the same region. A minor
> package-installation-order difference should not lead to different
> IDs.
>

Unless you're using something like NFS which uses UIDs as part of it's
protocol I don't see why you'd care about what UIDs a user is mapped to.
Seems to me like consistency for consistency's sake... (I suppose there are
some braindead programs that embed a particular UID at compile time, but
since this is open source it's pretty easy to work around such lameness).

Jeff
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