[ale] Same UID and GID through the cloud

[Jim Kinney]

+100!

All users on FreeIPA/LDAP so UID/GID are identical across entire
environment. Only 2 local users, root and a second admin user account (in
wheel group). All else is done with automount or plain NFS mount of /home.


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Lightner, Jeff
<JLightner at dsservices.com>wrote:

> Actually if you replicate environments like some of us do it makes sense
> for the reason I gave.  You can do tar pipelines/rsyncs etc...
>
> In large environments it is often very beneficial to have both
> administrative and end user accounts use the same the UID/GIDs even if
> you're not doing NFS.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JD
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 11:17 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Same UID and GID through the cloud
>
> On 04/21/2014 11:10 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> > Also if you tar up files from one server then extract on another they
> > come in with the original UID/GID so if you've used the same on every
> > server you don't have to chown everything after extract.
> >
> >
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> Actually, for nominal backups, it helps to keep uids/gids matched, but
> don't go crazy over it for that purpose.  NFS is 90% of the reason for me
> and only end-user accounts matched ... not-so-much for service accounts.
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