Post #318,631
12/15/09 10:51:35 AM
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Hey Greg, I have a debian question for you
Debian user policy has application users starting at 100, and human users starting at 1000. I'd like to custom cook up an install that starts human users at 100, and application users at 29000 or something. This is so we can use the nis we have here at work and more easily integrate things like roaming homes etc with an existing solaris setup, both here in the lab and up in production by keeping the uid's synched up properly. I'm wondering if you have any guidance about what I'd need to do to a debian netinst disk so that adduser.conf ended up being set up the way I want it during install. I've tried messing around with ubuntu on a usb key but so far to no success... and besides, I suspect that debian's a better fit for our use here anyway. I've tried the goog, but my google-fu is weak on this one apparently since I couldn't find anything reasonably relevant. Any ideas as to where I should start looking to find out the best way to get something like that hooked up?
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Post #318,634
12/15/09 12:19:01 PM
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Wow, that is a toughy.
Debian will fight you at *every* step of the way.
Every update of "base" it will ask you boorishly and frightfully.
let me get some time to go through this and perhaps we can chat on FB more about it sometime soon.
I don;t keep FB open during the day its too distracting.
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Post #318,638
12/15/09 12:42:19 PM
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Okie dokie.
I take it you mean that base updates will want to know if it wants to replace our adduser.conf with the one from the distro?
I'll look forward to yakking with you about it. In the notes on adduser.conf it says it should be a mechanism that allows easy modification for systems that require it for historical reasons... so hopefully that hasn't been forgotten along the way.
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Post #318,688
12/16/09 9:59:40 AM
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Musta missed you...
I was online from 5PM to 7PM ET, yesterday.
Sorry if I wasn't clear.
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Post #318,695
12/16/09 4:00:15 PM
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No, I missed you.
Something came up that required immediate attention. It was a pretty big problem, and since my boss is away at his Dad's funeral, it was up to me to fix it. I ended up working until four am this morning.
Sorry about that.
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Post #318,662
12/15/09 6:12:07 PM
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Research options.
I seem to recall older versions of RedHat started the human users at 100 and put service users from 50. The differences in setup to do that might give you some ideas of comparison. I don't know how far back you would want to go to find a version that still does that, though. You might have to go back before they picked up the LSB, which might be quite a ways back.
And then there's the issue of successfully NIS from Linux to Solaris. I know it doesn't work with FreeBSD and Linux: they put some files in different places and for some reason that breaks it.
Wade.
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
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Post #318,666
12/15/09 9:07:50 PM
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NIS, hit a port and address then mount what is offered
or authenticate. Anything can be a NIS client
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Post #318,677
12/16/09 12:59:45 AM
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Hah. No, not so.
We tried it. FreeBSD NIS servers, Debian workstation. Didn't work. I don't remember details, but something in NIS involves syncing pieces of the filesystem. The two OSes put things in different places, or have a different file format in a few files or something.
Wade.
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
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Post #318,682
12/16/09 8:58:46 AM
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well you have to be careful with the endian, little, big
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