Here's an idea for you...

Import your /etc/passwd file into some application that accepts character-delimited lists. Sort your list by UID and save it. I used Excel and saved the file in comma-delimited format (.csv), then edited the file and globally replaced the commas with colons. Worked great for me, and now I see Netapp employees in a completely differnt light...

Arnie

At 10:17 AM 6/11/98 -0500, Weeks, Thomas wrote:

Hey all..

I was planning on using the CVTUSER utils to dump all my NT users into my FS230's (OT V4.3.4) /etc/passwd file in preparation for using the filer as a pure CIFS based home drive for our NT login users... (no NFS)

My Q is...

Is there a way to force CVTUSER to create the user list export both alphabetically AND with ascending UID's? This way, as we add users to the filer, we don't have to check for "free UIDs"? Or if we're not even USING NFS (which we are not) and all we're using is the "cifs.home_dir" option and nothing else, couldn't eveyone have the SAME UID???

Anyone been here before?

Thanx...

Tom