Christopher Smith wrote:
I think the username itself is good enough. It's actually common to see the same username with different uids on different hosts, so I actually find uids not very useful. In some cases in LSF we've even complicated our lives by using uid and username.
On 13/4/05 07:34, "Karl Czajkowski" <karlcz@univa.com> wrote:
Otherwise, I think we should use "UserName" and the name-only semantics. I guess numeric ID is esoteric enough to handle through extensions if some subculture actually needs it?
I'm going to take these as meaning that we should not mandate uids/gids at all (just user names/group names) and that anyone who wants anything else is a) going to have to do an extension and b) probably doing the wrong thing anyway. That suits what I feel very nicely! :^) Thanks for the quick turnaround. Donal.