How to setup the same user/passwd and group on multiple ubuntu machines?

Tue Dec 24 22:22:31 UTC 2013

On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 11:26 -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a number of ubuntu machines on a network. I want to have a
> simple way so that each machine has the same user/passwd and group.

You could look into the the mass management tools like puppet. But since
no-one else has already said this, I will: Same passwords on multiple
machines is a really bad idea.

Regards, K.

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