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Hi Erwin,

On Friday 26 July 2013 13:28:32 Erwin Rol wrote:
> how is the group id management in ptxdist suppose to work? The *.make
> files all seem to use numeric values.

Marc has changed this behaviour longer time ago to also support names inste=
ad =

of numeric values only.

> Is there any mechanism to see which GID's (and UID's) are used for what?
> And how to decide which ID's to use for new users/groups?

AFAIR PTXdist uses the provided /etc/passwd and /etc/group to map the UID/G=
ID =

names from the rules files to numerical values (but I'm not sure).

jbe

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