Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

[Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>]

On 14/10/11 17:50, Camaleón wrote:
> > What I was really hoping to find was some sort of mapping facility that
> > changes UIDs originating from, say, laptop from 1001 to 1003, etc.
>
> Then you can add a routine to be run after each rsync round that changes
> the UID/GID (chown) of the backed files depending on where the files are
> located.

Thanks, Cameleón, I might take a look at LDA and/or NIS, although I have 
no experience with them. Otherwise, I guess I'm going to just change 
around the UIDs on some of the systems, which may well be the path of 
least resistance.

Thanks anyway for your help and advice.

Cheers, Tony


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