From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 3 20:01:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE8816A4DE for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 20:01:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from typhoon.enabled.com (typhoon.enabled.com [216.218.220.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C2643D45 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 20:01:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from [172.24.241.10] (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by typhoon.enabled.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k83K1hj1079089 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 13:01:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Message-ID: <44FB3488.4070607@enabled.com> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:01:12 -0700 From: Noah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Macintosh/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: ensuring the same group and user IDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:01:46 -0000 Hi there, How can I ensure the user and group IDs are the same between two systems without breaking things? Is it as easy to copy /etc/group and /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd between machines? Cheers, Noah