Matching user specs for multiple distros

[Collins]

I keep all my home stuff in a /home partition.  Since most of my
partitions are versions of gentoo, the userid's match up and I am able
to use /home without any complaints.  Now I beginning to experiment
again with other distros, and I can't mount and use /home
successfully, because the user numbers don't match.

For example, I created a LRs-linux 3.0 system (automated version of
LFS).  I've toyed with /etc/group and deleted and readded the collins
user several times, but I can't get LRs-linux to use the same user
number as I was on gentoo, so of course my collins user on LRs can't
use my /home files.

I'm sure I will encounter the same problem with Redhat which I am
downloading now.

Can anyone help?

TIA,
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