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On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:16:50 -0600 |
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"A. Wilcox" <awilfox@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 28/01/17 13:32, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:13:53 -0600 "A. Wilcox" |
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> > <awilfox@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> >> Having a file that user.eclass would use to map new users/groups |
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> >> to IDs would be extremely beneficial to me. I was thinking about |
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> >> diving in to that some time later, after the GLEP 70 work I'm |
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> >> doing, but if someone else wants to take it - please! That would |
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> >> greatly ease the pain of not only NFS, but swapping data disks |
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> >> around between different / . |
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> >> Consider, for example, one of my use cases for this: I have a |
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> >> LibreSSL / that I use solely for testing ebuilds against it, and |
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> >> my regular / with OpenSSL. I share /home and /srv between these |
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> >> two, but the apache, nginx, and charybdis users have different |
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> >> UIDs between them. Therefore I have to chown -R each time I test |
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> >> LibreSSL. |
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> >> |
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> >> I could use a different /home and /srv, or make two copies, but |
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> >> it's much easier for me to test these apps having my entire |
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> >> normal environment available to me. |
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> > As mentioned in my other post, why are you not using idmapd? It's |
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> > trivial to set up on top of NFSv4. |
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> I think you have missed the point. This is not on a network and this |
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> has nothing to do with NFS of any version. |
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Apologies, I didn't read that as closely as I should have done. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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