* Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> [2014-03-28 16:42]:
On 03/28/2014 03:41 PM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Bernhard Voelker wrote:
Hmm, the discussion started with problems - at least partly - to avoid clashes in heterogeneous environments, e.g. with LDAP [1]. AFAIK also the UIDs are in LDAP in such a case ... so I don't understand how 'useradd' would help in this scenario. Do I miss something?
I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say.
Actually the same as Joachim in http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2014-03/msg00386.html
Admins create users in the LDAP. So as there are 2 sources of truth, it is pointless to try to avoid clashing with 'useradd'.
What does this have to do with the proposal? If you pre-create system accounts in LDAP you can do that as before, with the added benefit that you will not have clashes between system and regular usernames as long as you disallow a leading '_' for regular usernames.
Instead, one can only minimize the possibility of clashes by reducing the number of local daemon users.
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