Debian devices and NIS user accounts

["Michael S. Peek" <peek@tiem.utk.edu>]

Hi all,

I'm in the process of remaping UIDs/GIDs from our old Solaris-based 
system (where [UG]IDs started at 100) to Linux (where [UG]IDs start at 
1000), and a thought occurred to me.  I have to add each user to the 
cdrom, video, audio, etc. group in order for them to be able to be able 
to use these devices.  But these groups all have GIDs below 1000.  I 
really don't want to have to go to each machine and physically edit the 
/etc/group file every time I add/remove an account, so it seems to me 
that the thing to do is to modify NIS so that it exports device GIDs 
(100 and up) -- but will that screw things up or open me up to a 
security risk?  I don't see how that would, but you never know.  So 
before I go and muck about with the system, I thought I would ask: What 
the Debian way of doing this?

Thanks all,

Michael