This information compiled by Andrew Daviel for want of anyone else to do it. Volunteers, please! mailto:advax@triumf.ca

UIDs

In order to harmonize file ownership among NFS-exported disks, User ID numbers (UIDs) are standardized on the public machines (alph04, lin01 etc.) at TRIUMF. Users with an account on one of these machines should use the same UID on their workstation. That way, they will be able to access their own files via NFS.

The list of harmonized UID's is found at uic-uid.html on the TRIUMF Internal page, or at /triumfcs/usr/local/databases/uic_master_list.txt via NFS.

If the shell program "useradd" (adduser) is used to create a new account, the UID may be specified using the -u option. The command looks like

useradd -c "Joe User" -u 1234 -p "joe_XXX" joe

where ""joe_XXX" is the initial password (which should be changed by the user to a new value on login).

Created by Andrew Daviel advax@triumf.ca