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On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:13:53 -0600 |
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"A. Wilcox" <awilfox@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Having a file that user.eclass would use to map new users/groups to |
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> IDs would be extremely beneficial to me. I was thinking about diving |
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> in to that some time later, after the GLEP 70 work I'm doing, but if |
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> someone else wants to take it - please! That would greatly ease the |
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> pain of not only NFS, but swapping data disks around between different / |
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> . |
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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 my |
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> regular / with OpenSSL. I share /home and /srv between these two, but |
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> the apache, nginx, and charybdis users have different UIDs between |
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> them. Therefore I have to chown -R each time I test LibreSSL. |
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> I could use a different /home and /srv, or make two copies, but it's |
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> much easier for me to test these apps having my entire normal |
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> 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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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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