Re: same UIDs across multiple systems
On Mon, 31 May 2010 07:58:45 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez
<corsac@debian.org> wrote:
>On dim., 2010-05-30 at 20:46 +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote:
>> Not a 100% sync, since any conflicts will need to be resolved, but quite
>> good for systems with sparse users. Also for reinstalling/replacing
>> systems, because it makes the IDs independent from the order in which
>> they were created.
>
>I'm sure you could do a wrapper around adduser to specify the UID has a
>hash of the username (or something, so you would have the same uid on
>all your boxes), though it might be hard to avoid collisions in the
>short allowed range.
That's what I've been doing even during the time when I was lead
maintainer of adduser.
Greetings
Marc
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