[SunHELP] Ideas needed for syncronizing /etc/passwd and /etc/group uids and gids

[Dale Ghent]

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 06:46 PM, Lumpkin, Buddy wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> We have a few hundred systems that all share a common /etc/passwd and
> /etc/shadow file. Recently we have inherited a couple pre-existing 
> systems
> that have common usernames and groups with different uids and gids. 
> This is
> especially a consern for usernames like oracle.


Heh, a tall order for a few hundred systems.

You might ant to look at investing your time instead into a project to 
sanitize all the same UID/GIDS across your systems and then using 
something like LDAP (or NIS+ if LDAP isn't a option) to manage it all.

/dale