Adam Borowski writes ("Re: UID and GID generation"):
> Actually, I do like this idea; obviously with reasoning contrary to the
> original report. In any small organization or a family, where you have an
> ad hoc set of machines without centralized user management, it is nice to
> have consistent uids.
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Maybe you want sync-accounts, from chiark-utils. Centralized user
management on the cheap.
Ian.