[SunHELP] re: making UID's match between boxes

[Julio_Bernabe]

hi, all

I think when you have tow different users on two differents machine and
theirs uids are equal, can exit a problem, if one of the user make ftp to
the other system the owner of the files is the other user.
The property of the file in unix system is defined by UID of the files, it's
recommend the same user of the different system would have a unique UID.

bye.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Dunbar" <Brian.Dunbar at plexus.com>
To: "Ron Wickersham" <rjw at alembic.com>; <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 4:50 PM
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] re: making UID's match between boxes


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Wickersham [mailto:rjw at alembic.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 12:46 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] re: making UID's match between boxes
>
>
> i've always heard that it is a _very_ bad idea to make UID's match on
> different machines.    but i can't make a justification for that.
>
> can someone comment on the issues and if it's only a bad idea to have
> two UID's match if the usernames are different.
>
> -ron
>
> We run a small branch office that way - 3 unix boxes (15 users).
> UID/Username are identical on all boxes.  Only observed problem is
> administrative - it would be a big pain if we had more user churn there.
>
> ~brian
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