/TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

Henning Glawe glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de
Tue Oct 25 22:11:58 CEST 2005


On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:19:54PM -0400, Dan B. Phung wrote:
> I understand your concerns with the incorrect uid/gids, but these files
> will be owned by root.root, which is standard for all systems, so this
> shouldn't be a problem for this particular case, right?

well: these files define the id<->name mapping. which is never really the
same for two systems because of the dynamical nature of these.
if you copy them from one system to the other, the on-disk ownership of
_other_ files will be wrong.

-- 
c u
henning
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