[ale] Same UID and GID through the cloud

[Lightner, Jeff]

Actually if you replicate environments like some of us do it makes sense for the reason I gave.  You can do tar pipelines/rsyncs etc...

In large environments it is often very beneficial to have both administrative and end user accounts use the same the UID/GIDs even if you're not doing NFS.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JD
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 11:17 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Same UID and GID through the cloud

On 04/21/2014 11:10 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Also if you tar up files from one server then extract on another they
> come in with the original UID/GID so if you've used the same on every
> server you don't have to chown everything after extract.
>
>

Actually, for nominal backups, it helps to keep uids/gids matched, but don't go crazy over it for that purpose.  NFS is 90% of the reason for me and only end-user accounts matched ... not-so-much for service accounts.
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