Ross Boylan wrote: > The problem is that none of those will work if the existing uids/gids > on the systems are not already consistent, and they aren't.
And the goal of your statement was what exactly? There is no magic wand for that - debian has default numbering for system accounts, so only user and custom accounts need to be moved to some user management system like mysql or ldap. Of course OP will need to chown on each machine to make it work. regards