Crossfire wrote:
...snip....
> No, you need to use a protocol that can deal with the concept of unix
> (numerical) user IDs. NFS is still generally the only thing that
> actually works in this category. I've heard allegations that SFS
> (Secure Filesystem?) also works. We use a mix of AFS (Andrew
> Filesystem - see openafs.org) and NFS here, but the AFS is about to be
> shutdown. (AFS has a huge administrative overhead - and I have too
> many obscure architecture systems).
>
> Of course, you do need to have your UID/GID space unified for NFS or
> other systems to work, or you need to build mapping tables and use the
> UID/GID remapping tools. *ugh*.
The easiest protocol for small situations is called "head space" and
chart on wall.
I currently have five users that are entered onto all machines in the
same order so they all have the same uid/gid.
So long as you are using similar distros, this means that each gets an
identical UID & GID.
At worst, you need to renumber /etc/group and /etc/password on some
machines and chown/chgrp affected files.
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