Fedora User Management (revisited)
Enrico Scholz
enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Sat Mar 10 16:27:07 UTC 2007
Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> writes:
>> > "a package/daemon writes files and/or reads files which are protected
>> > by file permissions" does not do so by default from machine A to
>> > machine B, right?
>>
>> Perhaps not "by default"; but this package might be used in a setup
>> which shares network resources betwen A and B.
>
> sharing resource between machines using protocls like NFSv3 requires
> planning _from scratch_.
Using 'fedora-usermgmt' eases this planning.
>> Or, when /srv/www is on the local machine, contains an huge amount of
>> data, and the system must be reinstalled for some reason.
>
> If you have to reinstall you just keep around /etc/passwd anyway
No; normal users are in LDAP, login happens with SSH keys resp. KRB5. The
root-password for console-login is set during the kickstart installation.
> you may have reserved different ranges on the 2 machines,
again: why would you do this?
Enrico
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