Terry Collins was once rumoured to have said: > Crossfire wrote: >> 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.
Actually, any reasonable adduser should let you explicitly specify UID, which is how I managed it before I switched to NIS at home. None the less, this all fits into what I specified as a unified UID/GID space - it doesn't matter how you unify it - the point is, it has to be consistant across all participants. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
