Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> In the same way a Windows domain has globally-unique UIDs shared between
> systems, I guess you could network-mount or in some other way
> keep /etc/passwd synced across computers. 

Only if they're all network connected from the start.  I can't take two 
already-set-up UNIX machines and connect them both to the same NFS drives 
and not expect problems, for example.

Windows manages to make this work even without a domain or network 
connectivity.  Sure, you can get around it with work, but the default isn't 
to confuse two accounts as one just because they come from different machines.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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