About managing user accounts
Within a network environment, each user and group must have a
unique identification number across the entire network, rather
than just on the home machine.
The user ID (UID)
should be a number unique to the user.
A system knows the user by the UID
associated with the login name;
therefore, a login name must have the same
UID
in all password files of machines that are
networked in a local domain.
If you wish to maintain user equivalence, each new user must be added to the proper password files for all machines on the system. For general information on how to do this, see ``Establishing user equivalence''. If you are using NIS, also see Chapter 7, ``Configuring the Network Information Service (NIS)''.
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