[sclug] Sychronising User accounts across distros

[Will Dickson]

Alex Butcher wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, John Stumbles wrote:
> 
>> Without firing up my laptop I can't say for sure but IIRC Mandrake is a
>> RedHat derivative and has a group for each user (so user fred is in
>> group fred). I don't know about Debian-style distros but do they do the
>> normal user=fred, group=users thing? 

IIRC Debian does group-for-each-user, or at least it used to.

Will.