strange nfs conversation

[Al Gordon]

On 9/22/05, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> What you need is NIS. This will keep the UIDs in sync on
> both your machines. The alternative is to manually copy
> /etc/passwd, /etc/group and so forth between machines. I
> find the latter irritating, but I know people who are fine
> with it.

Or LDAP (read as: "do people still use NIS?" ;)  ).

OpenLDAP is also not too difficult to set up to support centralized
account management.  There are several guides floating around about
how to do this on Debian.  They should work with little or no
modification on Ubuntu.

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