ensuring the same group and user IDs

[Noah]

Bill Moran wrote:
> Noah <admin2 at enabled.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Yes, but read the man page for pwd_mkdb first.  Other than that, it works
> fine.
>
> If you're going to be doing this on a larger scale, look into Kerberos or
> similar.
>
>   


thank you kindly for your guidance.  this is exactly the information I 
was looking for.

cheers,

noah