Terry Collins wrote:

>
>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.
>
I have a similar setup, but running with NIS (ok, the win2k and iMac 
don't get
that lucky... yet).

>
>So long as you are using similar distros, this means that each gets an
>identical UID & GID.
>
setting the UID/GID to specific values is trivial.

But with modern distros, setting up NIS and NFS is a snap.

>
>At worst, you need to renumber /etc/group and /etc/password on some
>machines and chown/chgrp affected files.
>
Yes, that is much worse than setting up NIS and NFS :-)




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