[Beowulf] system uid's?

[Michael Di Domenico]

i've run across an issue recently where a locally installed copy of
RHEL server and RHEL workstation produce dissimilar passwd/group
files.  i'm curious if anyone else has seen this.  and on top of that
how one might ensure that the uid of a system account is static
throughout the environment (including during a kickstart)

we do use ldap to synchronize user accounts, but not the system accounts.