[Nodebrain-users] Can I have the same userid on different nodes(machines)?

[Luc S. <luc...@ad...>]

Hello,

In the Nodebrain User Guide (0.6.4), chapter 1.4 (User Account Configuration), 
I find that the naming of identities is a bit misleading.

If I follow the examples in the chapter 1.4, I create a "user account" (you 
name it 'myid') on a machine (using identify), then I create a brain, which 
is correctly identified by myid@localhost (notice that the hostname is 
correctly present).

But, later in the same chapter, you specify that if I want to communicate with 
a remote host, I have to define its identity in the same file. That 
declaration is exactly the same as for a local user declaration. It is not 
specified that it is remote (except for the second parameter which is 0).
So that means that I can't have a user named foobar on two distinct machines.

My conclusion is that what you call myid, should be more viewed as 'the unique 
machine name', and not a username on one of the machines.

Am I right?

Luc Stepniewski
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