-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-04-19 at 13:26 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
SuSE configured the users UIDs to start on 500 some years ago. Then _they_ changed the default to start at 1000. So installs made on different years are different.
True, but you can over ride this. Of course this requires fore site and planning and often in the rush to get a new machine up, this is overlooked. Been there, done that.
Yes, I have it overriden as my UID is 500. But I'm not sure it is wise, as anytime suse could try to add a system user with uid 500.
I'm sure I'm not the first one to be in this predicament, having to use files created under a different user. The current procedure is to copy over the files and change the UID.
You can find a least impact route by changing those machines that affect only one user (or as few as possible) with the methods mentioned in this thread.
But you can not change backups!
[rant mode on] This is why i never recommend nfs, even for all linux shops (which, among my customer base are rare). There _MIGHT_ be a tiny performance hit for using samba/cifs as your file share platform but it saves you from this nonsense of requiring universal UID/GID plans. It works well in all linux shops as well as mixed shops. [/rant]
Yes, there is something in what you say. But does samba suport the full set of linux file permissions and ownership? I believe it doesn't. Plus, I usually find samba more difficult to setup, compared to nfs. Too many options and pitfalls. In any case, I simply mentioned nfs because I had heard somewhere that it can remap users. It seems this is so, but it is not documented. I don't really care how the remapping is done, nfs or whatever. There should be a local filesystem mount able to do that, perhaps using the kernel "device-mapper" thing. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIClshtTMYHG2NR9URAnECAKCBUNml4TEj8OS+H8UydLC7ZQvt8gCeLdlp xGLTypKEnQne2nZSWIolerk= =4buD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org