On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 15:17, Craig White wrote:
> copy these 3 files to the other 'Linux' machines and then simply cat
> them onto the existing passwd/shadow/group files...
>
> cat passwd.txt >> /etc/passwd
> cat shadow.txt >> /etc/shadow
> cat group.txt >> /etc/group
>
> and then the UID mappings, GID mappings and passwords are all the same.
>
> that would make user mounting of NFS quite simple
Actually it would make quite a mess of things if all the unix boxes
have already had users added with not necessarily the same users
and not necessarily in the same order which is pretty likely to
be the case by the time someone realizes they need NFS.
--
Les Mikesell
les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
