On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:16:45PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > I know the answer is going to be LDAP, but that's not really an option for > me. > > I have, at work, a number of boxes with various users spread across our > network. And I have encountered this on several different jobs. In essence, > say you have four users, e.g. user1, user2, user3 and user4...and for the > sake of this problem, say there are 10 boxes, host 1 through host 5. User1 > is the administrator for the network, so that person has accounts on all 5 > boxes. User2 has an account on box 2, 4 and 5, user3 has accounts on 1, 2 > and 4, user 4 has accounts on 2, 4 and 5, and box 3 is an NFS server. > > What I would liike to do is set it up so user1 has uid 1000, user2, 1001, > and so forth. Is there an easy way to set this up on my network such that > when I create a user, that user can have the same uid across the board? > Ideally, I would like to be able to subdivide the uid space so that, say, > admins are always 1000-1050, dbas are 1051-1075, users are 2000-2100, etc. > > I know LDAP can do this, but at work, it is not an option, at least in the > short term... > "at work"... are you using Active Directory by any chance? You can get Linux to authenticate off of that.
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