User IDs

[Don Dugger]

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