Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2532 mails)

[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> SMBmount/CIFSmount work every bit as fast, and since I always
> needed them anyway, why bother coordinating all the UID/GIDs for what
> was basically a very insecure system anyway...

I'm curious -- what do you have to coordinate?

Don't you have LDAP/NIS/whatever-based netwide authentication with 
central account creation (i.e., centrally managed accounts with 
common uids?)

For most SMB or SOHO installations that should suffice and delivers 
netwide UIDs/GIDs as a side-effect.

Your problem comes up mostly in large installations, when account 
creation is delegated to different departments or two companies 
merge. Or in very small installations that don't use LDAP -- but 
then, I'd use it for any network with > 2 systems. Well, maybe even 
for a network with 2 systems...

        Joachim

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Joachim Schrod                          Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
Roedermark, Germany

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