From: John.B.Kelly (John.B.Kelly@ul.ie)
Date: Wed Oct 22 2003 - 06:58:45 EDT
Hello all,
I've just installed openssh on a number of workstations. I'm not currently
using NIS+. The sshd user seems to have been installed with a different uid
on some workstations... it's got uid 1100 on some machines but a couple of
different uid's on other machines. Is there any way I can set the uid during
future installations to avoid this as I may need the other uid's for other
users. I've searched through ssh documentation, sunmanagers archives and
the web without success for this information. Also, is it now OK to just
delete the sshd account on the "non-1100" machines and recreate it with a
uid of 1100, copying exactly login shells, home directories etc? Since sshd
is a "special" account (i.e. automatically generated during openssh
installation), will the recreated sshd user inherit all the necessary
attributes of the old user? I'm running Solaris 8, I think there's an NIS
tool on Solaris 9 which allows uid to be chaged without deleting and
recreating an account but since I have neither Solaris 9 nor NIS+, that
doesn't really matter... unless there's another way of changing uid that
anybody can tell me?
Thanks in advance for you help,
John Kelly.
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