Major upgrade failure -> people maintain > 1 computer

[Alan Cox]

> > did you ever work in an environment with a lot of servers and
> > users and used rsync / nfs?
> 
> Why would you even consider using Fedora in such an environment? If you have a 
> server farm with shared users and use rsync/nfs/whatever, and you have the 

Why not (rsync btw translates names fine)

> whole thing (or a part of it) running on Fedora, then you'd better be prepared 
> to do some nontrivial amount of work when upgrading the Fedora machines.

And presumably RHEL in future.

> your backup infrastructure, and make sure that you have a contigency plan to 
> remap users back and forth in case you need to recover anything from an older 
> backup... Etc...

Remind me never to hire you as a consultant 8)

I would suggest the simpler approach is to "man nfsidmap"