RE: [CentOS] rsync and users

Todd Cary wrote:

Thanks to the encouragement of some people on this list, I am using rsync to synchronize two servers: one is a backup to the other in case the primary one fails. By hand, I inserted the names of the users on the primary server into the backup server. So, now all works well.

/usr/bin/rsync -av -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/

My question is what would happen if the users were not on the backup

They just get set to the UID/GID of the source server.

server?

Is there anyway to have the users automatically inserted into passwd and group?

I'd investigate NIS to fix this issue.

Thanks!

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