Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-16 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 05:17:14PM BST, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Thanks, Cameleón, I might take a look at LDA and/or NIS, although I > have no experience with them. Otherwise, I guess I'm going to just > change around the UIDs on some of the systems, which may well be the > path of least resistan

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-15 Thread Chris Davies
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > What I was really hoping to find was some sort of mapping facility that > changes UIDs originating from, say, laptop from 1001 to 1003, etc. Rsync can copy files either by uid or by username (see the --numeric-ids option). Personally, I'd recommend you bite the bullet

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread David Christensen
On 10/14/2011 04:34 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I have a VPS, a laptop and a home server, with various users/ids on each, but with a degree of overlap. So, for example, on the VPS I have userA id 1001, userB id 1002, and userC id 1003, etc. On the laptop I have userA id 1001 and userC id 1002. O

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/10/11 17:50, Camaleón wrote: What I was really hoping to find was some sort of mapping facility that changes UIDs originating from, say, laptop from 1001 to 1003, etc. Then you can add a routine to be run after each rsync round that changes the UID/GID (chown) of the backed files depend

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/10/11 17:45, Walter Hurry wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:16:39 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 14/10/11 16:22, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:34:20 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: (...) So, apart from reallocating user names/numbers at this late stage, what dou you recommend

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:16:39 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 14/10/11 16:22, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:34:20 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> So, apart from reallocating user names/numbers at this late stage, >>> what dou you recommend using to map across the

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:16:39 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 14/10/11 16:22, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:34:20 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> So, apart from reallocating user names/numbers at this late stage, >>> what dou you recommend using to map across the

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/10/11 16:22, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:34:20 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: (...) So, apart from reallocating user names/numbers at this late stage, what dou you recommend using to map across the various systems without my having to think too hard about it? What archiving

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:34:20 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: (...) > So, apart from reallocating user names/numbers at this late stage, what > dou you recommend using to map across the various systems without my > having to think too hard about it? What archiving tool are you using to make the b

Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Not strictly a Debian question, but relates to Debian systems I have a VPS, a laptop and a home server, with various users/ids on each, but with a degree of overlap. So, for example, on the VPS I have userA id 1001, userB id 1002, and userC id 1003, etc. On the laptop I have userA id 1001 and