From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 7 19:49:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC8DE1C9 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 19:49:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dondugger47@gmail.com) Received: from mail-la0-f47.google.com (mail-la0-f47.google.com [209.85.215.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35182223 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 19:49:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f47.google.com with SMTP id fh20so16631108lab.6 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:49:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=nwryjElahtCk/RHNrxy2+l3CKO3VppMdJc20sy7wTsg=; b=PsXYTz3OyfqwQS5nTz1Nw9W/PxhkYdql5hrwGZ06B0ojYVGz3Axe2j/ASPgW9h9wpP Pnbf74/LSOTRmMPvH0yMCq1z46eUP1nxz9AxgMZ2IKanvak53FEO7e6sU+ZBEbQ/0P9r tJrklcsGpR+YSlYxD6BC0nMMrg80WXOXl891XKOVKxymnm9PJ+LubOqF3NrRJUN5ia3r 1QvRRZ6r44hqlXL6HbDaYv6vc1we//fH+/98ybHDcvRU3tTTBsPYB7CL1hOomGBASA1S vH2xkCJn6TXS+UUBKN4xv3UdB5qz84ak2EfRmc1dEOJnr4/qIkwymBoXTF97Jgz5l3Xy cl7w== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.127.202 with SMTP id ni10mr59283824lab.6.1357588189050; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:49:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.86.34 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:49:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:49:48 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: User IDs From: Don Dugger To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:49:56 -0000 Hi All, Looking for advice. I have had between 3 - 9 boxes on a small home business network. This network has been in place for 12+ years. On occasions there's a Linux box however I am trying to use PC-BSD instead. The non-FreeBSD boxes are used for office and general work the FreeBSD boxes are for development. The question is about dealing with adding users. I been using NIS for a while now it works ok however I've had to keep good notes on how to do thing mainly because I don't add user or boxes very often. I'm a software engineer not a system admin so I not clean on what the best way to deal with things like this. The problem is when I added a PC-BSD box and added a user with the GUI admin stuff provided it did not let me specify the user id so now the users file that are on the nfs mounted drives user id's don't match. I can login as root and use chpass and change the user ids but then I must go through add they files on the new box change uids and gids. Question is there an easier way?? Thx in advance... Don