2008/507 [ OpenLDAP for OpenSolaris]

[James Carlson]

Nicolas Williams writes:
> My impression (please correct me if I'm wrong) is that with IPS the UIDs
> and GIDs can be allocated dynamically and that most pkgs that install
> local users/groups will often not be installed by the user anyways.

I don't understand how dynamic assignment would be administratively
useful outside of the lone laptop environment.

UIDs can be shared across machines.  They show up in backups and file
archives, in NFSv[23] messages, and in clustered file systems.

How is assigning "well-known" UIDs in a dynamic manner something that
would work when the user has more than one machine?

We need a fix for this problem -- and fast -- but I don't see how what
you're suggesting gets us closer.

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