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

[Jaco Kroon]

Hi,

On 2021/12/01 08:45, Alec Warner wrote:

> 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?
In this case none.  So no need for centralized database otherwise.
> Do the userids for the human users also not have to match between
> hosts in the cluster?

In certain environments we do need that, which is where nss_ldap and
friends come in.  In those environments the system ids doesn't matter
though, because only /home is shared :).

Kind Regards,
Jaco