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

[Ron Wickersham]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 sunhelp-request at sunhelp.org wrote:

> From: "Markham, Richard" <RMarkham at hafeleamericas.com>
> 
> Hi I want to make the UID's for a particular user match between boxes. If I
> change
> the UID in /etc/passwd then every file that the users owns will now reflect
> the 
> owner's previous UID.  I belive I can resolve this with:
> 
> find ${workdir} -user ${olduid} -exec chown ${the_owner}:${the_group} {} \;
> 
> Does anyone know of anything more to consider?  This user owns a large
> amount of 
> files.


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