UID/GID Synchronization
As an administrator, you receive messages that refer to users by UID and to groups by GID. Verify that the UIDs and GIDs have the same meaning everywhere. By default, the PMDB attempts to use the same UIDs and GIDs for new users and groups everywhere. You can help by providing the necessary conditions from the start as follows:
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As an administrator, you receive messages that refer to users by UID and to groups by GID. Verify that the UIDs and GIDs have the same meaning everywhere.
By default, the PMDB attempts to use the same UIDs and GIDs for new users and groups everywhere. You can help by providing the necessary conditions from the start as follows:
- Start with identical passwd files and identical group files.
- Make sure that the synch_uid token in the pmd.ini file is set to yes.
You can depend on compatibility between the UIDs and between the GIDs of your local database, your PMDB, and your PMDB subscribers if the following conditions exist:
- Your local database is a subscriber to your PMDB
- The PMDB is the only source of new users and new groups for your subscriber databases
If you create a user with a UID that is already in use in the PMDB or in some other subscriber computer, the individual update of the subscriber fails. In all other subscriber computers where no such conflict exists, the update succeeds.
An alternative to synchronizing your passwd and group files is to specify the UID of each new user and the GID of each new group explicitly.