Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Enrico Scholz]

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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