On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 11:21 AM, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
To solicit advice about how to deal with the mismatch, including the options I mentioned originally: 1) manually change the uids/gids so they match--and how to do that safely, esp on a live system 2) live with the the mismatches, at least for system accounts. I was also wondering how systems could be set up to have matching ids, given that the initial install doesn't use a shared identity database. For example, my newer systems have uid 101 = input, while pre-jessie ones have 101 = libuuid. The new ones have systemd-* users at 102-105, while the older ones have other users there. > > 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. I am the OP! Thanks for your responses. Ross
