Do I really need one UID per computer?
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at switchboard.net
Wed Jan 13 16:45:00 GMT 1999
under nt you have exactly the same problem as computers are actually trust
accounts are actually user names.
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, David Allan Finch wrote:
> permath at ifi.ntnu.no writes:
> |> This went through a logn discussion. The reason that the
> |> machine accoutn eeds to be in /etc/passwd is that is the best
> |> way to ensure it has a unique uid and therefore a unique derived
> |> NT RID. Remebeer that machine accounts are considered to be
> |> just another type of user account.
>
> Did no one mension that under NIS+ hostname are in the
> same namespace as usernames. Hence if you have a username
> with the same name as a hostname there are a problem
> with NIS+ creds. Unless there is another solution to
> this?
>
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