Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:05:20 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Noah <admin2@enabled.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ensuring the same group and user IDs Message-ID: <20060903170520.881cff2e.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <44FB3488.4070607@enabled.com> References: <44FB3488.4070607@enabled.com>
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Noah <admin2@enabled.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > How can I ensure the user and group IDs are the same between two systems > without breaking things? > > Is it as easy to copy /etc/group and /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd > between machines? Yes, but read the man page for pwd_mkdb first. Other than that, it works fine. If you're going to be doing this on a larger scale, look into Kerberos or similar. -- Bill Moran Someting happened or something.
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