On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:53:45PM +0100, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 02:47:32PM +0000, xs@kittenz.org wrote:
> > on Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:21:23AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > I am curious does any popular software hard code actual UIDs or GIDs
> > > (other than maybe for "0")?
> > 
> > qmail does at compile time, some portmap/mountd varients have uids hard
> > coded. user nobody is sometimes hard coded as -1.
> 
> Weird...
> 
> Though the problem with numbers come when sharing trees with nfs, for
> example...

It would be nice if there were a simple way around this.  I hate manually
sync'ing IDs and hate to run something like YP.  I'd even be willing,
for small LANs, to create a mapping file for each host.



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