I've got a good friend that was given just that job as his first task when he started as a contractor at DST. He had to come up with a system that would scan all files on each system and create a report to tell the sysadmins what to change on the hundreds/thousands of systems they have to consolidate and unify UIDs. It was then up the the admins to make changes as needed so that it wouldn't break anything during the process.
Jon.
On 1/8/07, David Nicol davidnicol@gmail.com wrote:
in general, ownerships are more hassle than their worth when putting something up for public rsync, or even local rsync unless you've actually got synchonized UIDs over your whole network (which is not that high of a bar, but no place I've ever worked has actually implemented it, what with the unices being somewhat of a redheaded stepchild in a Redmond-dominated world)