Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: allow -1 for ACCT_USER_ID and ACCT_GROUP_ID in ::gentoo

[Alec Warner]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 10:16 PM Jaco Kroon <jaco@××××××.za> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2021/12/01 03:32, William Hubbs wrote:
> > This is the part of this that I don't understand. If we aren't enforcing
> > an ID, why do we care which ID to try first? It seems to be an
> > unnecessary step since users can pick the IDs they want by putting
> > settings in make.conf.
>
> Because when running clusters of hosts it's useful to have the UIDs for
> "system" users match.  Yes, I know this won't match in a multi-distro
> setup, but at least for those of us with clusters consisting only of
> Gentoo hosts it will *usually* match.  Changing these are possible, but
> a nuisance, so having it "just work" for the usual case is great IMHO.

So questions from my side are:
Does your cluster not have human users?
Do the userids for the human users also not have to match between
hosts in the cluster?

-A

>
> If I'm not mistaken there is a setting to REQUIRE the ID, and that could
> even be set from make.conf, or env/ so for those packages that we care
> about that (eg, mailman running on top of glusterfs) we use that.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Jaco
>
>