[CLUE-Tech] My 30-second SuSE 9.1 Review (err, whinge)

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:56:10 -0400
"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 25 July 2004 11:14 am, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 09:02:36 -0600
> >
> > "Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 08:23:13 -0600
> > >
> > > Collins Richey <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > This is one of my all-time biggest gripes. There should be a
> > > > standard for user and group numbering that all distros adhere
> > > > to. IMO, this is even more important than LSB!
> > >
> > > In this case, it was not a "standard" group name. It was a group I
> > > had created for a particular purpose.
> >
> > In my case, I use whatever the default user/group numbering scheme
> > is on a distro, and that means I have to do "major tinkering" to get
> > my partitions like /home to work via nfs if I try another distro.
> > Some distros start the user numbering at 100, others at 1000, and
> > unless I remember to hard code the user number when creating a new
> > user, it's a royal pain to get nfs to work.
> 
> I've just started recently doing stuff with nfs,  what's the
> connection with user or group numbers?

It may just be my minimal knowledge of nfs, but I can't ever get
exported directories to mount on another system unless the numeric
userid, etc. matches on both sides of the fence. I resorted to the
following:

1. alter the userid for my user on one system
2/ Manually alter all the files owned by my user.

> 
> The rest of this stuff is one of the bigger reasons why I've tended to
> stay away from some of these distros (I run Slackware :-),  you either
> have to find a way through the distro to do something,  or you end up
> fighting it, or you can't do what you want -- which to me is one of
> the more significant aspects of running linux in the first place, 
> that you can pretty much do what you want with the system...
> 

Nothing wrong with Slack (an aok distro), but the same situation applies
when you multiboot various distros for testing and fun.

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